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Grasmere Farm


A family business which takes pride in its traditional quality pork and bacon products

Sausages and Burgers

Grasmere Farm is proud of our reputation for our sausages. From our traditional Lincolnshire Sausage to the unique smoked Rutland Sausage, there is a sausage for every occasion.

Alf, a retired local butcher who in his time won many awards with his Lincolnshire Sausages, has passed his craft onto Stuart, proprietor of Grasmere Farm. Stuart continues to produce his Lincolnshire Sausages to Alf's traditional recipe. Due to the reputation of this sausage it was not long before other types were produced.

The Rutland Sausage is a classic example of this. Originally commissioned for the Ram Jam Inn on the A1 near Stamford, this meaty garlic sausage has become a real favourite.

All sausages are made using only prime fresh pork and natural ingredients. Our top class Bratwurst which is made Thuringer style, is gluten and preservative free, making it suitable for coeliacs.

Quality & Principles

Grasmere Farm is a family business which takes pride in its traditional quality pork and bacon products.

The pigs are reared on stone ground meal, milled at our 18th Century watermill, Maxey Mill, on the River Welland. By using only our own farm herds we ensure a consistent tender taste of the past.

At Grasmere Farm, quality, flavour and tenderness can be guaranteed due to carefully controlled cereal diets, a friendly environment and modern processing facilities. Thus, Grasmere Farm pork combines the benefits of traditional values with up to the minute pork products to meet the demands of today.

All pork cuts can be prepared to your order and specification and delivered to you from our butchery which is purpose-built to EEC standards.

Our specialities include dry cured bacon and hams and an authentic Lincolnshire sausage - all prepared to our traditional recipes with flavours as they used to be.

Bacon & Home-Cured Hams

Bacon Curing

Grasmere Farm has earned a very enviable reputation for "Bacon as it used to be"

This is because we make it in the old fashioned way. The meat is placed in salting troughs and then rubbed with a mixture of salts and sugar to a recipe from Sid, an old village butcher who has since passed away, but at least his knowledge did not die with him!

Once the meat is cured, the meat, which is now bacon is hung to dry and mature. This traditional process results in bacon with a delicious depth of flavour which is second to none.

A question we are always asked is "Why does bacon produce a white watery scum in the pan, shrink and won't go crispy?" - the answer is simple... Grasmere bacon does not have these problems because we don't inject it full of brine and flavour enhancers as with mass-produced bacon.

Smoked Bacon

Our dry cured bacon in smoked slowly over beech wood to give a true natural smoked flavour infused throughout the bacon.

Home Cured Ham

At Grasmere Farm we make our own home cured ham. This is matured for a minimum of two weeks after curing which gives a mild flavoured ham of moist, yet firm, texture. These are available smoked or unsmoked. A gammon is a boneless piece of ham.

Copyright 2009. Grasmere Farm. Station Road, Deeping St James. Tel: 01778 342344 Fax: 01778 342540 Email: info@grasmere-farm.co.uk