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Best Beef Sausages
2012 SCOTTISH BEEF SAUSAGE CHAMPIONSHIP
Football has its “Helicopter Sunday” but in the Sausage competition it was “Firestone Friday” as Lucas' Judith Johnstone waited to find out on Friday morning 25th May whether she was going north, south, east or west with the Champions trophy. It turned out that she was going to be whisked off down the M74 in Chief Executive Douglas Scott's Mondeo.
The 2012
Scottish Beef Sausage Champion was crowned when Judith from competition sponsors, Lucas Ingredients visited Mogerleys
in
Dumfries
to present them with the winner's trophy.
This
competition organised by the Scottish Federation of Meat Traders was judged
regionally in April of this year with the Regional winners going through to the
Scottish Final. Mogerleys
of 49
Friars Vennel won
the South West Scotland Championship at the regional heat held at the
Braehead
Cook
School
in
Kilmarnock
.
The
five finalists were visited on Wednesday 23rd May and their products were
purchased by mystery shoppers and taken to the
Adam
Smith
College
, Kirkcaldy Campus on Thursday 24th May. Chef
Lecturer Scott Lyall hosted and organised the final cook off.
Joining
Scott to judge the sizzling final were two students from the college were two
students from the college and sausage expert Sandy Crombie from
Edinburgh
. Mogerleys came out on top closely
followed by the defending champion JC Douglas from St Boswells.
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RESULTS
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BUSINESS
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2012 G
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2012
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Cairngorm
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was thrilled to learn of the success. She
said:-
“We are so chuffed,
sausages are a very important part of our business.
We won the Scottish Pork Sausage in 2003 and this is further confirmation
of the excellence that we work for. The
only secret to our success is quality ingredients, we really care about what
goes into them.
For Gordon Little winning the trophy has capped off a great
month for him.
“It is the only award that has really eluded us. After winning the
regional Haggis and Black Pudding championships and the Scottish national Pork
Sausage, to win the Scottish for Beef links completes the set. We use the best
ingredients we can get and getting the right consistency of mixture right makes
the difference. About a year and a half ago I changed the recipe so that
when the sausage is cooked it is not hard, now it's more succulent.”
Self proclaimed Sausage Kings of Dumfries, Mogerleys display up to seventeen
different varieties on one day. It is an old established business dating from
1876 that was bought by Gordon's father, also called Gordon, in 1967. Gordon
Little Junior has run the business for the last ten years but this year
celebrate 21 years of working in the Friars Vennel shop. Gordon married Amanda
earlier in May and the celebrations continue with the sausage title.
with the trophy Judith Johnstone of Lucas added:-
“It is really important
that traditional butchers maintain their product making skills.
Customers will travel great distances to buy good products and I am sure
that Friars Vennel will be a popular destination for sausage lovers.
Competition for this title is intense so Gordon and Amanda Little can
feel very proud of lifting this title.”
For further information
please contact:
Gordon
Little, G Mogerley & Son 49 Friars
Vennel,
Dumfries
,
DG1 2RQ
, Tel -01387 253590The five regional winners were:-
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REGION
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WINNER
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North
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East
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South
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JC Douglas, St
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West
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Alan
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South
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Mogerleys,
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2012 Scottish Black Pudding winners will be announced early in June.