Description
This is the half pig for people who like to cook their way through an animal. Nothing goes into sausages. Instead you get every cut as it comes, including the hand, the belly and half the head. Roast the leg for a table of twelve, cure the belly for bacon, and turn the head into brawn.
It is the same pork that has earned its place on the menus of kitchens like St John and Sketch. Middle White fat is sweet and renders cleanly, it bastes the meat as it cooks, and it gives you the best crackling you will ever make.
The breed was once so prized in the capital that it was known as the London Porker, but the post-war turn to leaner bacon pigs left it close to disappearing. It remains a priority breed on the Rare Breeds Survival Trust watchlist. We have kept Middle Whites at Huntsham for over thirty years, and around a third of the UK’s Middle Whites now live here.
What’s in the half:
Shoulder. Serves around 8. Whole, or as two smaller roasting joints.
Leg. Serves around 12. Whole, as two halves, or cut into leg steaks.
Loin. Serves around 14. As one or two roasting joints, as chops, or half and half.
Chump. Serves around 4. As a joint or as chump chops.
Hand. Serves around 5. A roasting joint from the lower shoulder, at its best cooked low and slow.
Belly. Serves around 8. As one or more roasting joints, or kept whole for curing.
Half Head. For brawn.
Liver and Stock Bones. Half the liver for frying or pâté, and bones for stock or soup.
Approximately 18-20kg before butchery. Everything is butchered on site by Jim and the team. There are more ways to butcher a half pig than we could ever list as options, so we don’t try. If you have preferences (the leg as steaks, the loin as chops, joints cut to a particular size) add them to the special requests box when you order. If you’d rather talk it through, just leave it blank and we’ll give you a call before we butcher.
Delivery
Orders over £69.99 are delivered free of charge. Below that threshold, there is a £10 delivery charge. Delivered in insulated packaging, chilled and ready to cook or freeze on arrival.
