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SPECIAL LIMITED EDITION BURNING BARN CIDER BARREL FINISHED APPLE RUM MADE USING SAXBY'S APPLE JUICE NOW LAUNCHED
Order early! A Limited Edition collaboration with Burning Barn Rum. Based on a Normandy style Pommeau, 3-year aged dark rum blended with cider apple juice and a little honey, then finished in oak cider barrels to create a 40.5% Cider Barrel Finished Apple Rum.
The bottles are available to buy in our shop on the farm in Farndish and at our Chester House Estate shop.
10% of the profits from this bottle will go to The Youth Sports Trust via the amazing Paddy’s Project 52.
On the nose; heady apple aroma, fresh soft fruit; strawberries, bramble. Cider and a hint of oak coming through later.
To taste; huge buttery cream notes to start, sweet, stewed apple and dried fruits; Port or Madeira like. Dark peppery rum in the background. Treacle tart. Everything elevated by slight acidity and complex aromatic sweetness of English Apples.
70cl bottle
40.5% ABV
Saxby's Cider Low & Slow Roasted Pork recipe as featured on B&M website and in "For the Love of the Land" by Jenny Jefferies
Guest Recipe: Jenny's Low & Slow Roasted Pork Recipe
29 August 2022
With the dawn of Autumn fast approaching, and the signs of summer becoming a long and distant memory, our hearts and souls will require some accessible warmth and inspiration for the new season’s greetings.
Low and slow recipes, along with delightful meals cooked in slow cookers, roasting trays and casserole dishes can often satisfy the busiest of families. I can thoroughly recommend a decent slow cooker or a very good, large casserole dish or roasting tray to accommodate lots of ingredients to make the most delicious of recipes such as the one recommended below.
Multitasking will easily become attainable and offer the home chef new found freedom in the house whilst the food is bubbling away; ensuring a convenient and delicious mid-week meal for the family.
I just love the depth of taste and texture of a slow-cooked recipe; the hours taken in the slow cooker or in the oven draw out the best from simple British ingredients that eventually grace the plate with an eruption of profound flavour.
This recipe will go a long way and could plate up lots of leftovers for cold snacks and last-minute, quick tummy fillers for later days during the week.
From ‘For The Love Of The Land II: A Cook Book To Celebrate The British Farming Community And Their Food’ by Jenny Jefferies and published by Meze Publishing.
“This recipe is a Saxby family favourite. Not only is it delicious but it can provide great leftovers for pulled pork rolls another day. A big advantage to the low and slow cooking time is you can leave it cooking all day (or overnight) while getting on with other things.” By Phil Saxby of Saxby’s Cider
Prep Time: 15 min
Cook Time: 10 hours
Total Time: 10 hr 30 min
Serves: 12 servings
Ingredients
4 medium carrots, each cut into 3 pieces
3 onions, peeled and quartered
2 apples, quartered
2 whole bulbs of garlic
1 bunch of fresh thyme
6kg pork shoulder on the bone, with scored skin (from your local butcher)
Olive oil
Salt and pepper
500ml Saxby’s Original Cider
500ml chicken stock
Method
Preheat your oven to 220°c. Put the roughly chopped carrots, onions, apples, bulbs of garlic and thyme sprigs into a large roasting tray.
Pat the pork shoulder all over with olive oil and sit it on top of the vegetables. Now massage the salt and pepper into the skin of the pork.
Put the tray on a low shelf in your preheated oven to cook for 30 minutes or until it’s beginning to colour, then turn your oven down to 120°c and leave the pork for 9 hours or until you can pull the meat apart easily with a fork.
At this stage, tip the cider into the roasting tray and let it cook for another hour. Take the pork out of the oven and let it rest for half an hour before transferring it to a large board. Cover the meat with foil and let it rest.
Remove the vegetables and add the chicken stock to the roasting tray. Put it on the heat, and reduce until you have a lovely gravy. Strain before serving.
Serve with your choice's potatoes, green vegetables, and more Saxby’s Cider. Cheers!
For a vegetarian or vegan option just substitute the pork with one large butternut squash, and the chicken stock with vegetable stock, reduce the stock and the cider by half and pre-heat the oven to 200C. 1 bulb of garlic will do, slice the root vegetables into smaller pieces and reduce the total cooking time to between 40 and 45 mins. You may also use any other root vegetable that you find to have a glut of and accompany the carrots as desired. Serve with green vegetables or a simple salad.
Jenny Jeffries is an award-winning author and Food Hero with Love British Food, a member of The Guild of Food Writers, a member of The British Guild of Agricultural Journalists and writes a regular online article for Country & Town House magazine, a monthly food blog for Farmers Guardian and regular articles for Rural Life magazine.
Photography credit: www.paulgregoryphotography.co.uk
Apple Picking Volunteer Days at Saxby's Cider
VOLUNTEERS WANTED!!
Enjoy a bucolic trip to the farm, get some fresh air, meet the Saxby’s team and other happy helpers on our Apple Picking Volunteer Days. We will have lots of cider apples ready to be hand picked on the farm in October. Can you help? Would you like to be part of this year's harvest?
When: Weekdays in October - dates to be confirmed when the apples are ripe and ready. We will email a booking link nearer the time with the sessions:
Morning sessions 9.30 - 12.30 (includes lunch)
Afternoon sessions 1.30 - 4.30 (includes lunch)
Where: Grange Farm, Farndish, Wellingborough, Northants NN29 7HJ
What's in it for you: Fun and exercise in the fresh air plus lunch and a cheeky cider when you're done
Please email us if you are able to help - the more the merrier!
cider@saxbyscider.co.uk
Saxby's Cider events calendar for 2022
Here is the current line-up for our wide variety of events on the farm at Saxby’s Cider in 2022
There’s something for everyone -
cider & sausage fests
comedy events
local producers’ fairs
taproom sessions
cidery tours
charity quiz & curry night
art classes
summer BBQ
music festival
PYO sunflower picking
PYO pumpkin picking
Our taproom is also available for private hire - please click here for more info
Three new Great Taste Awards for Saxby's Cider in 2021
We have won three 2021 Great Taste Awards for Saxby’s Original, Saxby’s Plum and Saxby’s Rhubarb Ciders. Great Taste is the world’s largest and most trusted accreditation scheme – and is designed to support and promote artisan food and drink producers.
What the Judges had to say in 2021:
Saxby’s Original Cider (1-Star)
This cider has a lovely clear colour, a yeasty nose, very well balanced tannin and acidity and a gentle, floral element. A lighter style but very cleverly balanced. Tannins from the cider apples happily provide an uncloying finish. An easy drinker – one to serve well chilled on a summer's day.
Saxby’s Plum Cider (1-Star)
Clean, bright, copper-bronze appearance. Low plum aroma. Juicy plum flesh leads to a drying tannin that helps balance out the sweetness. Plum and apple last pleasantly on the finish. Pleasing coppery-orange tone and clarity. While the nose carries little hint of plum we did find those fruit tannins and touch of fleshiness on the palate. The sweetness is nicely balanced by sound acidity and soft tannins. There's some pleasant plum character here, working decently in tandem with the apple.
Saxby’s Rhubarb Cider (1-Star)
This cider has a very clear colour and a gentle nose. It is very refreshing and sweet. We would happily drink this on a summer afternoon as it is very refreshing. A genuine rhubarb nose and slight baked rhubarb flavour - juicy and with a pleasing fizz.
We are hiring temporary staff for our popular PYO Pumpkin Picking event in October 2021
Help us to host a great family event on our farm this Autumn. We need help with the following roles - greeting our customers, working the pumpkin tills, cider shop, bar and general daily preparation and close-down duties around the site. The events do get busy and you will be expected to be flexible within these roles to cover staff breaks, busy times and generally what needs doing!. This would suit sixth-formers and beyond due to serving alcohol but other duties are available for under 18s. This is an outside event in October so you’ll need sensible footwear and warm clothing. You’ll need to be confident talking to and serving our customers and quick on your feet with maths when on the pumpkin tills.
Our opening times are below:
Saturday 16th October 10-4
Sunday 17th October 10-4
Friday 22nd October 12-4
Saturday 23rd October 10-4
Sunday 24th October 10-4
Tuesday 26th October 12-4
Wednesday 27th October 12-4
Thursday 28th October 12-4
Friday 29th October 12-4
Saturday 30th October 10-4
Sunday 31st October 10-4
Please email info@saxbyscider.co.uk to arrange to pop in to meet us at the farm.
We are hiring for our new shop at Chester House Estate opening in October 2021
We are recruiting!!
We are opening a new cider and booze shop at Chester House Estate near Wellingborough and are looking for someone to help run it. If you have experience in retail and sales of alcohol then please get in touch. We are looking for someone who gets on well with people, is organised and has previous experience in this field. It will be a full time position and will involve weekend work. Duties will include providing excellent customer service, till work, organising product displays, stock and deliveries This is an exciting new chapter for us and you will be part of a very small team so flexibility, enthusiasm and energy are essential!
Please email phil@saxbyscider.co.uk with a cv to get the ball rolling.
Applications welcome up to 30/9/21.
Have a look at everything on offer at Chester House Estate here
Saxby's Cider opening a shop at Chester House Estate near Wellingborough
We are very pleased to let you know we will be opening a shop in the new artisan shopping courtyard at The Chester House Estate, near Wellingborough, very soon. We will be stocking all our ciders, apple juice and cider vinegars plus many locally sourced beers, wines and spirits.
Chester House Estate will be a FREE TO ENTER Heritage Visitor Attraction with an Archaeological Resource Centre.
It will also provide:
Volunteer and Community Engagement
Wedding and Corporate
Venue Hire
Restaurant and Café
Events Catering
Artisan Shopping Courtyard (that's where we are!)
Bed and Breakfast
Community Farm Shop
Corporate Partnerships
Year-Round Events Programme
Outdoor Play Area
North Northamptonshire Council purchased the site in 2004 and secured grant funding through working with the National Lottery Heritage Fund to develop a sustainable visitor destination with access for the public to learn about the history and heritage, as well as becoming the location to house countywide archaeological finds.
It's going to be fantastic!
https://chesterhouseestate.org/
Saxby's Cider Farm Events Diary For 2021 is now available
WITH ALL DATES BEING PROVISIONAL AT 3RD JANUARY 2021 DUE TO THE UNPREDICTABLE NATURE OF COVID-19 THEY ARE AS FOLLOW:
24TH APRIL 2021 BLOSSOM FEST
12TH JUNE 2021 LOCAL PRODUCERS’ FAIR
7TH AUGUST 2021 SUMMER BBQ
9TH OCTOBER 2021 APPLE DAY PARTY
16TH - 31ST OCTOBER 2021 PYO PUMPKIN PICKING
11TH DECEMBER 2021 CHRISTMAS FAIR
ALL BOOKING WILL BE AVAILABLE SOON ONLINE VIA TICKETSOURCE.
For more info please visit our events page HERE
Four new Great Taste awards for Saxby's Cider in 2020
We have triumphed in the 2020 Great Taste Awards with no less than four of our products winning the highly coveted Great Taste Stars. Great Taste is the world’s largest and most trusted accreditation scheme – and is designed to support and promote artisan food and drink producers. This year alone 12,777 products were entered and assessed.
As Cider maker Philip Saxby explains:
“Putting our range of Ciders to the test with a panel of over 500 expert judges is an excellent way for us to get honest, straightforward and impartial feedback from chefs, buyers, food and drink writers and retailers. These latest 2020 Awards – for Saxby’s Original Sparkling Cider, Saxby’s Rhubarb Sparkling Cider, Saxby’s Sloe Gin Cider and Saxby’s Christmas Cheer – brings our total of Great Taste Awards to 12. It’s a wonderful tribute to our hard working team here on the family farm in Farndish. We always say Saxby’s Ciders are made with love – we’re delighted that once again the Great Taste judges agree”.
What the Great Taste Awards Judges had to say.
Saxby’s Original Sparkling Cider (1-star)
Wonderful clear golden straw colour. Complexity on the nose hints at more distinct apple aromas – apple skin, sweet apple, sharp citrus and very slight orange blossom.
Saxby’s Rhubarb Sparkling Cider (1-star)
A light and fruity cider with a punchy rhubarb aroma. The rhubarb is the star here.
Saxby’s Sloe Gin Slider (2-star)
Warm, tawny gold in the glass - a clever and appealing blend of sloes, baked apples with a hint of marzipan.
Saxby’s Christmas Cheer (1-star)
Deep amber gold. Very rich dried fruits and apples on the nose. Rich and raisiny – perfect with a mince pie.