10 CRAFTBUTCHER l FEBRUARY 2017 TEAM UK GO TO LEEDS


THE great thing about a national skills competition like Premier Young Butcher, is that selecting and organising a team to represent your country at the International Young Butcher Competition becomes very much easier. Tat said, taking on the top three Premier Young Butcher finalists to train to compete at the compeition in May, still


takes a bit of organising. Monday morning and


Dylan Gillespie of Clogher Valley Meats flies into Luton from Belfast, before a two- hour car ride to Leeds. While James Henshaw from Taylors Farm Shop, makes his way from Ormskirk, Lancashire along the motorway to join James Taylor from Simpsons Butchers. Who, travelling


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from Heckington, Lincolnshire pops into Curtis’s in Lincoln to pick up much needed Back Fat, before meeting up with Viv Harvey and the others for the session. Arriving at Leeds City


College, and aſter a quick coffee and a ‘wedge’ in the refectory, the three got down to work with category 1 making their ready to eat ‘Europe’s Regions’ products. Regular readers will


remember the ‘Wiltshire’ wide open spaces within the products at the November session. Tankfully, some lessons were learnt with Dylan remembering to put air holes in his pastry top. Whereas, James ‘T’ is still


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missing a bit of filling between the layers of pork and apricots. And James ‘H’, while packing fried slices of beef into a loaf, which helped to win him the Premier Young Butcher title last year, is going to have to learn how to bake better bread or find a better baker!


Dylan’s BBQ Finishing up just before six,


meant off to the hotel, an early dinner, a pint or two and a bit of a catch up. Aſter all, Bonfire, Christmas and New Year had all happened since they were last together! Because of a later start the


day before, back at the college Tuesday morning meant cooking off the ready to eat products for cooling overnight and tasting on Wednesday. Terefore, day two was mostly occupied breaking down a Top and Rump (Hip) of beef into Primals inside 30 minutes and then going on for a further 90


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