Description
WHAT’S IN THE BOX
Grasmere Cumberland Sausages 2 x 380g (12 sausages)
Grasmere Lincolnshire Sausages 2 x 380g (12 sausages)
Grasmere Dry-cured Back Bacon 2 x 180g (approx 12 rashers)
Grasmere Dry-cured Streaky Bacon 2 x 200g (approx 14 rashers)
Grasmere Black Pudding 2 x 240g.
THE SAUSAGES
Two sausages, two very different characters — and both made by hand in our on-site butchery.
The Cumberland is a true breakfast sausage. Lightly seasoned with pepper and herbs, they are flavourful but without being overpowering. Just what you want for the ultimate breakfast fry up.
The Lincolnshire is our flagship. Based on the recipe of local butcher Alf — award-winning, herb-forward, and built on sage the way a proper Lincolnshire sausage should be. It’s been a customer favourite at Grasmere since the very beginning and it earns that reputation every time.
Between the two of them, you get twelve sausages of each.
THE BACON
We dry-cure our own bacon at Grasmere — a slower, more traditional process than the wet-curing used by most commercial producers. Wet curing injects brine into the meat for speed. Dry curing rubs salt into the surface and gives it time. The difference in the pan is obvious: dry-cured bacon doesn’t shrink, doesn’t release a pool of white liquid, and gives you a rasher that actually crisps up properly.
The back bacon is the leaner cut — the eye of the loin with a strip of fat along the edge. Twelve rashers, enough to keep everyone happy.
The streaky is the flavour cut. More fat, more rendering, more flavour. Fourteen rashers that will crisp up in the pan or under the grill into something that makes the whole kitchen smell right. It’s also the correct bacon for a sandwich.
THE BLACK PUDDING
Ours. Made by hand in our farmhouse kitchen in small batches, using the best British pork and a traditional recipe that we’ve been making here for years. Rich, deeply savoury, properly seasoned — the kind of black pudding that converts people who think they don’t like black pudding.
Slice it thick and fry it in a dry pan until the outside is properly crisped and the inside is still yielding. That’s it. Don’t overthink it.
BUILDING YOUR BREAKFAST
A breakfast box this size will comfortably serve 6 people generously – or freeze what you don’t need for fewer people at the table.
For the full spread, add fried eggs, grilled tomatoes, mushrooms, and a slice of toast — everything else is supporting cast.
On the order of cooking: Start with the sausages — they take the longest. Black pudding and back bacon go in next. Streaky bacon last, it needs only a few minutes. Eggs while everything else rests. Time it right and everything hits the plate together. That’s the goal.
MAKES A GREAT GIFT
A breakfast box from Grasmere is one of those gifts that actually gets used — immediately, enthusiastically, and with a proper cup of tea alongside it.
STORAGE & DELIVERY
Delivered fresh in chilled packaging. Keep refrigerated and use within the use by on the packets or freeze on arrival.
ALLERGENS
Sausages and Black Pudding contain: Wheat, Sulphites. Bacon contains: Sulphites. Full allergen information on individual product packaging. Made in an environment handling Egg, Milk, Soy, Mustard, Celery & Sulphites.
