View from the Farm: January 2024
- Dave & Betsy | Hill Place Farm
- Sep 3
- 2 min read
We are currently hard at work scouring seed catalogs! After taking a year off from growing vegetables, Hill Place is working on plans for 2024 gardens. We hope to offer sweet corn, pumpkins, and maybe even dried beans!
Sausage Roll
From: Kyle Swift
This delicious dish is an authentic English classic, shared with us by our British son-in-law. Don't forget to order yourself some sausage ahead!
Ingredients
1lb your favorite Hill Place sausage (available in breakfast, hot and sweet Italian flavors)
1/4 cup bread crumbs
1 garlic clove, pressed
1 Tbsp finely chopped parsley
1 egg
1 package of puff pastry, or half a batch if you're making your own
Instructions
Preheat oven to 400F.
Mix sausage, garlic, breadcrumbs and parsley together in a bowl using your hands until well incorporated. Beat egg in a bowl and set aside for egg wash. Lay out the puff pastry as one long rectangle. Spread the sausage mix over the puff pastry, leaving about an inch on one side. Coat the uncovered pastry with the egg wash, then fold the pastry over the sausage mix forming a tube. The egg will serve as glue to close it.
Coat the top of the sausage roll with the remaining egg wash.
Place on a cookie sheet and bake for about 20 mins, or until the pastry has fluffed and is golden brown. Remove from the oven and let cool.
To serve, cut the roll into desired sized slices, probably 1 to 2 inches wide.
Getting Things Set Up
We are slowly ticking things off our ever-growing list of projects. In December we added a proper pig shed and pasture to accommodate the four piglets we're raising. This feels like quite the step for us, since we've previously raised pigs in more makeshift pens. Now we can easily envision more regular pig growing for Hill Place Pork!
Horse Work!
As you will all remember, we recently got our harnesses finished for Holly and Tilly, our Suffolk Punch fillies. That means we've started the work of breaking them to drive. To help us with this task, we've enlisted the help of Annie, our Percheron cross mare. It's been a while since she's been harnessed but she'll help us get the younger ones ready!
Broiler Orders!
One other endeavor that we're planning for this spring is to raise a batch of broilers. We'll be selling them as whole chickens along with the rest of our meat and eggs. Look out for your chance to order birds for your freezer soon!
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