Lost in Translation!

Posted by Simon

Our two white pigs have now been slaughtered, butchered and bagged up. Only one of the pigs was ours and we had around 40/45kgs of meat from each pig. So the freezer is pretty full at the moment.

With the boys, it is useful for us to mince quite a lot of the meat. One, they like it and two, it's easy to cook up. So I made up 9 x 500g bags of mince. All very simple - so far.

But then I decided to make some sausages! Especially as one of our friends asked if she could have some and as she helps us out at times, I thought I'd go into production. So I set everything up. Mince, onions, oats, salt and pepper and of course the skins. All the ingredients the hand written recipe says.

"Rosie is tsp teaspoons or tablespoons?" I ask - well I can never remember.

"Tbs? Tablespoons" Now you see where this is going!

"Okay"

Right I've mixed everything up and ready to go. Rosie is in place to catch the sausages at one end of the machine whilst I feed the machine at the other end.

"Hadn't we better cook a bit to taste the mixture first?" suggests Rosie

"No, it'll be alright. It's based on last years recipe which was okay. I reduced the oats and the meat is not so fatty."

So with three very long sausages ready to be 'twisted' into small ones I proceed to cook a bit of the leftover mix. Smells good, cooks nicely and with watering mouths the taste test ......... Ugh! A mouth full of salt and pretty overpowering on the pepper too. These are horrible.

"How much salt did you put in, Simon?

"3 tablespoons"

"These will have to go in the bin, they're inedible, we'll have to adjust the recipe"

Rosie looks at said recipe to make the changes and then asks.

"How much salt did you put in?"

"What it says, 3 tablespoons"

"It says tsp - teaspoons"

"I asked you and you said tsp was tablespoons"

"I thought you said tbs"

And I'll leave it there! But for - we still have 6 of our 9 bags of precious mince but my mouth feels as though it has been assalted!!!