[{"id":13131743260,"handle":"cured-meats","updated_at":"2024-04-20T20:15:02+10:00","published_at":"2023-07-04T14:22:02+10:00","sort_order":"manual","template_suffix":"","published_scope":"web","title":"Cured \u0026 smoked pastured meats","body_html":"\u003cp\u003eAll of these products go beautifully together on a grazing platter with a jar of \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/featherandbone.com.au\/collections\/cured-meats\/products\/organic-chicken-liver-pate-2\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Organic Chicken Liver Paté\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"\u003eOrganic Chicken Liver Paté\u003c\/a\u003e, our \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/featherandbone.com.au\/collections\/cured-meats\/products\/wild-ale-honey-mustard\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Wild Ale \u0026amp; Honey Mustard\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"\u003emustard\u003c\/a\u003e and \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/featherandbone.com.au\/collections\/cured-meats\/products\/pickled-cucumbers\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Pickled Cucumbers\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"\u003epickled cucumbers\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAll our cured pork products are made from slow-growing, pasture-raised pigs and this is a rare thing. Think about it this way. Around 3% of Australian pigs are raised outside on pasture, healthy and free to do their piggy thing. Between 50-75% of most pigs are cured for ham, bacon, salami etc.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhich means that, at most, only about 1.5% of the cured pork sold in restaurants, cafes, supermarkets, butchers and delis is made from pasture-raised pork.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe other 98.5% is made from intensively-raised pork, often imported. Pigs squashed together inside, restricted, medicated and definitely not free to do their piggy thing. Who wants to eat that?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/featherandbone.com.au\/blogs\/chew-the-fat\/pastured-pork-is-hard-to-find\" title=\"Pastured pork is hard to find\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRead more about pasture-raised pork.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","image":{"created_at":"2018-04-17T17:20:27+10:00","alt":"","width":1665,"height":1508,"src":"\/\/featherandbone.com.au\/cdn\/shop\/collections\/Air_cured_pork_shoulder_whole_small.jpeg?v=1685690633"}},{"id":13133447196,"handle":"pastured-pork-1","updated_at":"2024-04-20T14:00:01+10:00","published_at":"2020-04-13T08:12:39+10:00","sort_order":"manual","template_suffix":"","published_scope":"web","title":"Pastured heritage-breed pork","body_html":"\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWe're old fashioned whole body butchers and we source our heritage-breed pork directly from NSW producers practising regenerative farming. All pigs are born and raised outside on pasture and arrive to us via the abattoir as whole carcasses that we cut to order. All our pork is hormone and antibiotic-free and entirely free-ranging on chemical-free pasture.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOur pigs come from regeneratively-managed NSW farms including McIvor Farm, Near River, Pillar Rock Pork, Saulsbury Pork, Spring Grove, Stockinpiggle Farm and Wallendbeen Farm. Your cut will be labelled with the farm it came from and breeds include Berkshire, \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eDuroc Landrace, \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eEnglish Large Black, Hampshire, Tamworth and Wessex Saddleback. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBecause we buy the whole body (no boxed meat) we can usually cut anything you require. So if you don't see a product you're after here, just email or call and we'll make it for you.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eOr come and select from the full range at our Marrickville and Waverley shops. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","image":{"created_at":"2018-04-17T17:16:43+10:00","alt":"","width":4935,"height":3722,"src":"\/\/featherandbone.com.au\/cdn\/shop\/collections\/Farmer_Michael_Molly_s_piglets_1_of_4_crop.jpg?v=1523949403"}}]
There are many excellent meals you can make with smoked ham hock, it's cheap, versatile and delicious.
Make a supersimple ham hock soup (as pictured) with base of onions, carrots, celery, chuck in a hock or two and a few litres of water and bring to a simmer. Then add whatever veg are knocking around your fridge and larder - potatoes, pumpkin etc. Simmer for a few hours until the broth is rich and flavoursome and the ham is falling off the bone. Serve with crusty bread and lashings of butter or Goldstreet Clouds.
Our hams are made from the whole pasture-raised, heritage breed pigs we source from regeneratively-managed NSW farms. They are brined (salt and sugar) and smoked and are completely nitrate free.
The legs we turn into hams arrive at our factory as whole animals direct from the farm through the abattoir. Throughout the year, we use some of the legs fresh, some we cure and sell as ham and some we put aside and store to build up enough stock for Christmas hams. This means that we know which farms our hams came from, how they’ve been stored, how they’ve been cured and, finally, who is buying them.
The Producers We buy whole bodies of a range of different sized pigs on a rotating basis from a number of farms - from big baconers through to suckling pigs. Most available cuts come from porker pigs which are about 50-65 kg that are 5-7 months old. The pork we source is:
packed with the farm and breed clearly labelled;
hormone and antibiotic-free;
entirely free ranging on chemical-free pasture;
a mix of breeds including Berkshire, Landrace, Large White, English Large Black, Duroc, Wessex Saddleback and Tamworth;
