Burdfields Country Market

admin — Sat, 24 Mar 2012 21:54:02 +0000

Burdfield’s in April

Have you seen the recent cost of fuel per litre recently, up at Five Oaks? I worked out that it would cost me , in my little van, about 15p per mile plus my time to go shopping, other than at my local shop. If you take this into consideration, shopping local is by far the most convenient way to shop.

On a Thursday, we have the fresh fish man, Rex, come up from Hastings, and a little van that sells artisan breads. A good quantity of our quality fresh fruit and vegetables is delivered and we always manage to price them less than the supermarket. Other local producers deliver during the week and we bring produce in from our own farm on a daily basis, when we can. If you like Avocado Pears, we have some lovely large ones for just £1 each. Our whole garlics are £1 each. Other products, such as our cakes, marmalade, jam, coleslaw and pizza are made on the premises, using all the lovely ingredients from our shop.

Have you tried our delicious home made fruity bread pudding yet?

In the Tea Room, our home made meals are always popular, eat in or take-away, seven days a week.

In Billingshurst we are fortunate enough to have four banks (if you include Santander at Fowlers Estate Agents), an excellent hardware shop, a real bakery and butchers and countless other gems including the excellent Lions Book Shop. Parking is NOT an issue if you have a blue disk for the Library Car Park (we sell these) or pay for a ticket in the other car park.

We have a small stock of Organic Fair Trade Green & Black’s Easter Eggs along with various sized simnel cakes.

We’ll be open over the four days of Easter.

February 2012

idlea — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 13:15:37 +0000

BURDFIELDS in FEBRUARY

The Seville Oranges have been bought and the marmalade made, so what shall we do in February? Firstly we shall be thinking about Valentines Day and then usually we would be thinking about pancakes and Shrove Tuesday, but this year it falls on the 21st. We will be making sure we have a stock of buckwheat flour for the pancakes.

We stock a traditional crepe mix made with natural ingredients made with buckwheat flour – JUST ADD WATER. So simple. The buckwheat gives the crepe its unique flavour and light fluffy texture which compliments both sweet and savoury fillings.

www.quickcrepes.com has some fantastic savoury and sweet recipes and even a tutorial video.

We have already started sewing the seeds on the farm to grow lettuces, which should be ready to sell in the shop in April, and other vegetables and salads. Our own rhubarb should be available by April too. We hope to be growing even more varieties this year, weather willing.

Our herbs and spice selection is forever growing, should you need something more unusual. If we don’t stock it, we’ll certainly try to get it in. Just ask. Don’t forget we can get most ingredients in all sizes because we buy them in sacks from 25Kg to 500g. Let us know what you’d like.

ON THE SUNDAY, 19^TH FEBRUARY, WE HAVE THE ITALIAN MARKET ARRIVING IN THE LIBRARY CAR PARK from 9am
until about 4pm

Pancake Mixture

idlea — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 13:00:01 +0000

www.quickcrepes.com has some fantastic savoury and sweet recipes and even a tutorial video.

Cheese

admin — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 11:53:01 +0000

We have a selection of local and British cheeses:

High Weald Dairy

http://www.highwealddairy.co.uk/

HWD is a family run dairy, based on their organic dairy farm in West Sussex.

Their cheese makers craft a delicious range of award winning cheeses from organic cows milk, conventional and organic sheep milk and most recently goat milk.
The organic cow milk comes from the cows based on our farm. The sheep milk is supplied by several sheep milking units, the largest milking over 700 ewes twice every day, and our goat milk comes from Kent.
The cheese is all made in their modern dairy, just 20 metres away from where the cows are milked – food yards …not miles! And they only use pasteurised milk to make their cheese.
Their cheese is suitable for vegetarians as they only use vegetable rennet. They do not use artificial ingredients or processes. They are also certified by the Soil Association and are members of the Specialist cheese association and ATaste of Sussex.

Alsop and Walker

http://www.alsopandwalker.co.uk/

Alsop & Walker award winning Cheese Maker

Arthur Alsop and Nicholas Walker specialise in Artisan Cheese making at their Factory in East Sussex, Aiming to produce a complete cheese board of hand made cheese that will do everything from introducing the youngest in the family to satisfying the adults.

Sussex Blue

A lightly blue veined cheese with a slightly creamy texture; as requested for a dinner at Brighton race course attended by The Queen and Prince Phillip

Other Sussex Cheeses are:

Goodwood, Broadoak, Scrumpy Sussex, Olde Sussex and Lord of the Hundreds and from Bookhams, the renowned Sussex Charmer and Vegetarian Parmesan.

Sussex Charmer

Snowdonia

http://www.snowdoniacheese.co.uk/

Premium cheeses for every occasion. The Little Black Bomber flagship is extra mature cheddar and the other exciting cheeses are there to add contemporary style to the kitchen, family eating time, guest menu, or the late supper with fine wine.

Some cheeses are from the West Country:

Quickes Traditional Cheeses

http://www.quickes.co.uk/

The Quicke family have been farming in Newton St Cyres for over 450 years. The dairy is set in 1500 acres of stunning Devon countryside, where our 330 cows provide the rich creamy milk to make our cheese and butter. Care for this beautiful environment and the welfare of our animals lie at the very heart of the Quickes philosophy. Click the links on the left to see more about where we are.

Other West Country cheeses are:

Somerset Brie and Somerset Camembert

Cheese Tips

Some Cheese Tips You May Find Interesting:

My favourite is eating cheese with chocolate and a glass of red wine

Always store your cheese in the fridge

Remove your cheese from the fridge a couple of hours prior to eating; it should be eaten at room temperature

What ever cheese you choose to eat will always be fantastic inside an omelet

Make your parties simple

For the cheese board allow 150 grams per person

For a cheese and wine party allow 250 grams per person

Also, the “Little Book of Cheese Tips” by Andrew Langley which is available on Amazon makes for interesting reading

January at Burdfields

admin — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 12:08:06 +0000

Happy New Year

We should be grateful that there should be an abundance of root vegetables which make excellent soups and broths and combine with cheaper cuts of meat to make delicious casseroles. All being well, Spring Greens, should start to become available as well as early forced rhubarb. Good, simple, comforting, wholesome food is what’s needed after the indulgence of Christmas. We have some Spring Greens, Lettuce and Romanesque Broccoli (tennis ball size).

OrganicSevilleoranges, or Sours, should be available, which is the bitter orange that has always been used for making marmalade but also makes a marvelous sauce for duck. We have plenty of recipes in the various cookery books in the tea room. A tablespoon of crushed coriander seed, tied in a muslin bag, allowed to boil with the peel, gives the marmalade a delicious flavour.

Don’t forget, we can order all sorts of things, in all sorts of quantities; from 25Kg to 1 Kg in wholefoods, flours, herbs, spices – just come in and ask. We package them in small quantities so there is no false economy for you, but we know that some people need more.

January at Burdfields

admin — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 11:11:32 +0000

January at Burdfields

HAPPY NEW YEAR from all of us at Burdfields.
We should be grateful that there should be an abundance of root vegetables which make excellent soups and broths and combine with cheaper cuts of meat to make delicious casseroles. All being well, Spring Greens, should start to become available as well as early forced rhubarb. Good, simple, comforting, wholesome food is what’s needed after the indulgence of Christmas. We have some Spring Greens, Lettuce and Romanesque Broccoli (tennis ball size).
Organic Seville oranges, or Sours, should be available, which is the bitter orange that has always been used for making marmalade but also makes a marvelous sauce for duck. We have plenty of recipes in the various cookery books in the tea room. A tablespoon of crushed coriander seed, tied in a muslin bag, allowed to boil with the peel, gives the marmalade a delicious flavour.
Don’t forget, we can order all sorts of things, in all sorts of quantities; from 25Kg to 1 Kg in wholefoods, flours, herbs, spices – just come in and ask. We package them in small quantities so there is no false economy for you, but we know that some people need more.

News 14th December 2011

admin — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 11:35:11 +0000

Anita Burdfield 14 December 10:58 We’ve some great Christmas goodies in the shop. Have to tried this? Selsley Herb & Spice – Mulling Syrups A non alcoholic syrup containing a special blend of spices to provide a simple and convenient way to make the most delicious mulled wine, cider or apple juice. Being a sugar based product, it fully dissolves when heated and doesn’t leave any residue or powdery aftertaste, which can sometimes occur with sachet type alternatives. Simply add to your chosen drink in an 8:1 ratio, heat and serve. For example, the 500ml bottle contains enough syrup to make a minimum of 6 bottles of wine but, of course, you can make up as much, or as little, as you like. Even after opening the product can be stored at ambient temperature for long periods of time Although predominantly aimed at the Christmas/Winter market to provide that much needed ‘warm’ feeling during those long cold nights, the product also has a number of different uses for other times of the year. For example, a small amount of the syrup drizzled over a good quality vanilla ice cream produces a truly wonderful result. Other uses include adding a small amount of the syrup to fresh fruit, especially pears, or even adding some to the Sunday roast gravy to enhance the overall flavour of the meal. It is also particularly good brushed over cocktail/barbeque sausages.

Free Range Turkeys

admin — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 07:57:39 +0000

Free Range Turkeys
They’re all Bronze Turkeys.
We’ll be selling them at £10.00 per Kg, which is £4.54 per lb.
Birds are oven ready with giblets and come with Anita’s tried and tested cooking instructions.
Please order sooner rather than later. You need to call into the shop and pay a deposit but this can be combined with a hot drink and a slice of your favourite, tempting, tempted, see you soon Anita

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Seville Oranges February 2011

admin — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 02:23:24 +0000

The Seville Oranges have been bought and the marmalade made, so what shall we do in February? Firstly we shall be thinking about Valentines Day and then usually we would be thinking about pancakes and Shrove Tuesday, but this year it falls on 8th March. We will be making sure we have a stock of buckwheat flour for the pancakes.

Forced rhubarb is the seasonal favourite, and, as usual, we have plenty of recipes for its use. I always like to add a sliced banana to the rhubarb crumble, with a bit of ground ginger mixed into the topping. Following on from the success of the Late Night Shopping in December, we thought we would have a “Late Night” Shopping night on 31st March from 7pm-9pm with local crafts people selling and demonstrating their products including kitchen utensils, jewelry, cards, candles and more, for Mothers Day, which will be on 3rd April this year. Why not bring your mum along?

Dots Puds

admin — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 18:36:01 +0000

“Dot’s Puds”

We think these are
likely to be the most delicious
Christmas Puddings
you will ever taste.
Traditional in every respect.
The family recipe is 80 years old to Dots knowledge first traced back
to her grandmother and for the past 60 years Dot has added her own
refinements to bring you what we consider to be her splendid pudding
of today.
The ingredients are hand mixed, quality checked and finished also by
hand. The pudding is prepared with a selection of sultanas, raisins,
cherries, currants, peel, almonds, grated apple and carrot all bound
together with fresh breadcrumbs, eggs, vegetable suet and dark
muscovado sugar. We think that the final ingredient, more than a
drop of good quality traditional stout ale, really aids the depth of
colour and unctuous quality of the finished pudding.
Each of the puddings are carefully packed in the most delightful and
festive presentation wrap.

Small: 500g £6.99
Medium: 1Kg £10.99
Large: 1.5Kg £14.99
Please pick up an order form, if you’d like one.