Longhorn Beef at Oxtail and Trotter

Hugh has been on the search for yet another breed of beef to wet your appetites this week!

Continuing with the theme of finding the best quality beef you can buy, we will be selling Longhorn over the counter from this Saturday, supplied by our local producer David Charlesworth from Hinstock Hall.

For those of you who don't know much about the Longhorn breed, here is a little background for you.

Longhorn cattle are the oldest registered breed of cattle in the world and hundreds of years ago, farmers bred cattle to be easy to handle, hardy and to pull the plough. Now in the 21st century these traits help to produce some of the best beef in the world.

Longhorn cattle have quiet, gentle natures, which produces a relaxed meat ' their hardiness is ideal for producing meat from grass and producing great marbelling.

Many famous chefs have endorsed this fabulous breed including the legendary Heston Blumenthal who travelled the world looking to find the best beef to make the perfect steak. In true Heston style he carried out extensive and rigorous taste and cooking tests, and in the end there was a very clear winner and that was the beef of the Longhorn cattle, with its nutty, blue-cheese note he'd hoped to find, together with marvellous moisture and juiciness alongside a firm, but giving texture.

Longhorn beef was also voted 'Britain's Best Steak' in the Country Life Magazine blind tasting, where one judge said that the Longhorn was 'the perfect steak'.

As with all David Charlesworth's beef, this Longhorn will have grazed on beautiful traditional grass pastures and will have grown slowly to give the best possible conditions for flavour to develop. Simon has been dry aging this beef for the usual +21 days to give the best tenderness possible.

Don't miss out – ask Simon or Jake to reserve yourself something special!

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