Welcome to Ramsay of Carluke,
a Rick Stein Food Hero

Award Winning bacon curer and butcher

By using only ‘Farm Assured’ Outdoor Reared Free Range Pigs we produce Traditional Ayrshire Bacon, Free Range Pork, Sausages, Black Pudding, Haggis and Cooked Hams. Also suppliers of matured Scottish grass-fed beef.

All available by Mail Order throughout mainland UK.

Everything you need for the complete Award Winning breakfast (except the eggs!)

Ramsay News

Six more Gold Medals

At the recent Scottish Federation of Meat Traders Cured Meat Evaluation we were delighted to be awarded Six Gold Medals for the following products.

Smoked Middle Bacon, Smoked Back Bacon, Smoked Streaky Bacon, Smoked Pancetta, Middle Bacon, Streaky Bacon.

What a great start to 2009!

Hygiene & Quality

At our regular stringent Q Guild Butcher's inspection by EFSIS we were delighted to achieve a double A Pass for Hygiene & Quality. This level of pass is what we strive to achieve and confirms our ongoing commitment to high standards and quality . EFSIS isone of the leading global inspection and certification experts. EFSIS provides retailers, manufacturers, farmers and caterers throughout the world with expert inspection and certification of their operations to ensure only the highest standards are maintained.

Taste of Edinburgh 2009

We have just returned from three glorious days at the Taste Festival in Edinburgh's Inverleith Park. The weather was fantastic and the crowds were out in force determined to sample as much great food and drink as they could. We were sampling and selling our bacon, black pudding and sausages non stop, so much so that we ran out of black pudding and sausages by the end of the second day. We were sharing a stand with Valvona & Crolla, one of Edinburgh's leading deli's. Valvona & Crolla have also taken over the Food Hall at Jenner's, Edinburgh where a large selection of our products are available.

Thought you might like to try this recipe for our favourite salad.

Very simple but it has a big WOW factor.

Black Pudding & Apple Salad with Melted Camembert Dressing

Serves 4

For salad

1 large bag of mixed salad leaves

2 Cox's apples or apple of your choice but it needs a bit of a crunch to it

Cider to cover apples

4 slice of Ramsay's black pudding.

For dressing

1 x 250g ripe Camembert

2 tablespoon double cream

2 tablespoon dry cider

First prepare the dressing. Cut the cheese in half and carefully peel the skin away from the cheese using a sharp knife. Place the cheese in a saucepan, add the cream, do not heat until ready to serve the salad.

Slice the apple into a bowl, keep the skin on. Cover the apples with cider (this will prevent them going brown until you are ready to serve).

Now cook th black pudding, either grill or place in a hot non stick frying pan (my preferrred method) and cook for 3-4 mins each side until ready. Whilst this is cooking, make the salad dressing. Place the dressing over a very gentle heat and blend the cheese and cream together with a balloon whisk until smooth, now gradually add the cider until you have a nice pouring consistency. If more cider is required add gradually as you don't want the dressing too runny.

To serve, place the salad leaves in the centre of the plate. Remove the apples from the cider and dry, scatter apples over leaves. Cut each slice of black pudding into 8 pieces and place on top of salad leaves. Take the dressing and lightly pour over the salad, or put the dressing in a sauceboat and let everybody help themselves.