IT is that time of year again when residents are encouraged to enjoy the most important meal of the day for Farmhouse Breakfast Week.
Denstone Hall Farm Shop and Cafè, in Main Road, will once again be encouraging customers to take part in the national event by creating a sausage made up of ingredients from a hearty breakfast fry-up.
The staff have drawn on their sausage-making know-how to produce the Breakfast King, which combines the shop’s prime pork sausage meat as well as bacon, mushrooms, tomatoes and baked beans.
The sausage has been named after the popular saying ‘breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince and dinner like a pauper’, which highlights the importance of making the first meal of the day the most filling.
They have been created to mark Farmhouse Breakfast Week, which is a national seven-day event starting on Sunday and is held to fly the flag for breakfast.
Farm shop owner Rupert Evans said: “My granddad always swore by having a good breakfast and there is ample evidence from nutritionists underlining why it’s the most important meal of the day.
“We have always marked Farmhouse Breakfast Week and decided to create a special sausage this year to celebrate the occasion. Making an all-inone sausage is quite a task, actually, and we are indebted to our butchers, John and Dylan, for making one that fits the bill and tastes absolutely delicious.
“We’re hoping that they will sell well, but most importantly that we help to spread the word that having a good breakfast sets people up for the day.” Denstone Hall Farm Shop marks Farmhouse Breakfast Week every year and 2012 is no exception.
As well as making and selling the Breakfast King, it is laying on a special breakfast menu featuring everything from a full English breakfast to orange curd porridge and Staffordshire oatcake brunch.
It is also premiering its latest bacon — a dry cured short back bacon flavoured with local Staffordshire Honey and Tracklements wholegrain beer mustard — with which it plans to mark Bacon Connoisseurs Week at the end of March.
National Farmhouse Breakfast Week, which is being held by cereal growers’ organisation HGCA, runs until January 28, and will see farmers, producers and retailers across the country getting involved to highlight the wealth of regional products on offer.
It sees hundreds of events across the country from school breakfast clubs to breakfast cafè promotions and farm visits.
Denstone Hall Farm’s special menu will be served from 9am until 2.30pm from Tuesday to Saturday, January 24 to 28, and from 10am to 2.30pm on Sunday, January 29.
