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mochyn

Joined: 21 Dec 2004
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Location: mid-Wales

Posted: Thu May 11, 06 9:46 am Post subject: Just cleaned out the freezer...
And I bet you're expecting me to have found something odd in there, eh? Well no, I didn't, but now it's fit to receive THE PIG on Saturday when I pick up her remains from the abattoir. I can't tell you how excited I am! The old chap asked me what's for supper Saturday: basically, he has a choice of cuts of pork. Or pork. Or another bit of pork.

Bernie66

Joined: 14 Jan 2005
Posts: 13967
Location: Eastoft

Posted: Thu May 11, 06 9:48 am Post subject:
Whenever i clean ours out it always appears twice the size it was. The icebuild up is ridiculous.. SO pork for tea next week then

mochyn

Joined: 21 Dec 2004
Posts: 24585
Location: mid-Wales

Posted: Thu May 11, 06 9:53 am Post subject:
That's only one of the freezers: I have two and need a third for the summer produce as one will be packed with procine produce. Not only pork for tea, but every other meal there is, as well as lardy cake, soap, anything else I can find to do with bits of pig... Perhaps I should take next week off...

judith

Joined: 16 Dec 2004
Posts: 22789
Location: Montgomeryshire

Posted: Thu May 11, 06 10:06 am Post subject:

mochyn wrote:

Perhaps I should take next week off...

I thought you had retired!

Put some plastic sheeting in your car in case of drips.
Make sure you have lots of bags and greaseproof paper for rewrapping and many, many labels. Lots of ice blocks too. Don't forget to put the freezer on Fast Freeze if it has that setting - takes forever to freeze a whole pig.

All things I have forgotten to do in the past and have regretted

Nick

Joined: 02 Nov 2004
Posts: 34535
Location: Hereford

Posted: Thu May 11, 06 10:24 am Post subject:
Buy more string. And only use the very best labels. You will not recognise your pig in bits, when covered in frost after the label has fallen off. Ears make rubbish chops.

judith

Joined: 16 Dec 2004
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Location: Montgomeryshire

Posted: Thu May 11, 06 10:36 am Post subject:

nickhowe wrote:

Ears make rubbish chops.

And ham stock makes a very strange chicken stew.

sally_in_wales
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Joined: 06 Mar 2005
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Location: sunny wales

Posted: Thu May 11, 06 11:09 am Post subject:
pea and ham soup, mmmm lardy cake mmmmmmmmmm bacon mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm great things, pigs

mochyn

Joined: 21 Dec 2004
Posts: 24585
Location: mid-Wales

Posted: Fri May 12, 06 8:39 am Post subject:

I think I'm prepared: I've got a few vary big plastic boxes to go in the car and I'm geting bags today.

Looking forward to tomorrow hugely. If all goes as well as Tuesday did then I'm doing fine! No probs, except the old chap had a dodgy moment doing her ear tag. The pig was a lady though: no trouble getting her across the electric fence line or into the trailer, and she was last seen chatting happily to the other pigs at Leintwardine.

The butcher's shop attached sells fantastic stuff: mutton, wonderful pies and pasties: I'll be coming home with a car-full tomorrow! And then spending the rest of the weekend in the kitchen...

Nick

Joined: 02 Nov 2004
Posts: 34535
Location: Hereford

Posted: Fri May 12, 06 8:48 am Post subject:
Buy more bags. Then go get some more. Ice cube trays for your stock? ps, buy more bags. And string.

Rob R

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 31902
Location: York

Posted: Fri May 12, 06 12:05 pm Post subject:
Did you by any chance run out of bags, and string, Nick?

Nick

Joined: 02 Nov 2004
Posts: 34535
Location: Hereford

Posted: Fri May 12, 06 12:06 pm Post subject:
Oh, and buy more salt. LOTS more salt. It's cheap, stores forever and you don't have enough. And actually, no, I have balls of bloody string left over. But, you can't have enough bags. Really.

Lozzie

Joined: 25 May 2005
Posts: 2595

Posted: Fri May 12, 06 5:07 pm Post subject:
String mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

judith

Joined: 16 Dec 2004
Posts: 22789
Location: Montgomeryshire

Posted: Mon May 15, 06 10:18 am Post subject:
So .... Did you have enough string?

sean
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Joined: 28 Oct 2004
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Location: North Devon

Posted: Mon May 15, 06 10:29 am Post subject:
No reply.... Maybe her string-and-plastic-bag mountain collapsed pinning her to the floor of the kitchen....

mochyn

Joined: 21 Dec 2004
Posts: 24585
Location: mid-Wales

Posted: Mon May 15, 06 10:56 am Post subject:

The pig is now safely in the freezer, where no harm can come to her. We had the first chops on Saturday night: best ever! and big, to boot.

I had enough bags, and all the joints were tied so I didn't need string, although I have plenty. Did run out of salt though, and the old chap's bringing some home tonight so I can top up the brine over the ham, bacon & hock.

Judith: I had the same problem as you: they lost my offal! What was the outcome when they lost yours?

Everything else was great though. Much less stressful than I'd anticipated. Huge sighs of releif all round here!

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