Butchers Q Guild members nationwide have received multiple honours in the 2015 Great Taste Awards, organised by The Guild of Fine Food.
The Awards attracted an entry of 10,000 different products, which were presented as 1-, 2- or 3-star awards.
Lawson Butchers in Uphill, West Lothian, and Ferguson of Airdrie both received 2-stars for its Haggis, with the former also receiving a 2-star award for its New Season Cannon of Lamb and a 1-star for its Black Pudding.
Hepburns of Mountnessing, in Essex, received 2-stars for its Smoked Streaky Bacon, along with a four 1-star awards for its Smoked Back Bacon, Farmhouse Sausage, Smoked Cooked Ham, and Honey and Orange Ham.
Walter Smith Fine Foods was another 2-star winner with its Traditional Free Range Pork Sausage, and also received a hat-trick of 1-star awards for its Shepherds Pie with Cheese and Leek Crust, Free Range Scotch Eggs, and Black Watch Scotch Eggs.
Other winners included Owtons Butchers in Southampton, C Lidgate’s Butchers, London, Somerset’s Jon Thorner’s in Pylle and the Moody Sow Farm Shop, Cardiff.
Q Guild manager Gordon Newlands said: “Yet again, both our butcher and corporate members have demonstrated that they can win awards at the very highest level. Product innovation remains key to the Q Guild and we congratulate all our winners on their many and varied successes.”
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