Elliotts started off over 10 years ago as traditional family butchers in Kislingbury, where they still have a shop. I've come to Towcester, where they've had a butchers shop since 1994. Hidden behind the shop is their deli, Elliotts Kitchen.
A glance in the window:
will show you that this a proper butcher's shop! There's their award winning sausages:
and free range Banham poultry, but I decided to go for their shin beef:
Shin beef is what my mother always used for stews and is the cut that the ever helpful Felicity Cloake advises to make the
perfect beef stew. However, like
Jamie Oliver, I prefer to use red wine.
There's 2 things you need to know about cooking shin beef, you need to cook it slowly - but you need the oven hot enough to dissolve the collagen into gelatin. When cooked properly I prefer shin beef to fillet steak!
If you go up the alley (ginnel if you're from Yorkshire) you'll find Elliotts Kitchen:
and here you can buy cheese:
and items like traditionally made brawn, faggots, cooked meats, pies, Scotch eggs, and quiches as well as cakes.
Customers travel quite a distance to buy their gold medal winning pork pies:
They also do a range of ready meals - try their smoked fish pie.
Elliotts also have a food hall, butchery and deli in Daventry
Elliotts of Towcester
181 Watling Street
Towcester
Northants
NN12 6BX
Tel: 01327 350454
Web:
www.elliottsbutchers.co.uk
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