Pepperette

Our pepperettes are dry-cured sausage sticks — smoked, well peppered, and made with natural pork from our family farm in Huntingdon, Québec. Gluten-free, with no chemical preservative: the cure comes from celery culture extract. One stick of roughly 40 to 60 g that fits a lunchbox, a hiking pack or a snack board, and keeps in the fridge.

What Is a Pepperette?

It is a dry sausage in stick form: seasoned meat, cased, then dried and smoked, eaten as it is with no cooking. Spicier than a genoa-style salami, more tender than a beef jerky stick. Ours is pork, with a clean pepper bite and light smoke.

Natural Québec Pork

Our pigs are raised with no hormones and no antibiotics on our family farm in Huntingdon, where we have farmed since 2005. The recipe stays short because the meat needs no rescuing: pork, spices, celery culture extract, sea salt, vinegar. Nothing else.

Taste & Nutrition

Smoked charcuterie flavour, peppery, and salty the way a dry sausage should be. Gluten-free — the whole range sits under "gluten-free charcuterie". Contains mustard (declared allergen: mustards). Like any dry-cured meat it is a salty food: a snack, not a meal.

Do Pepperettes Need to Be Refrigerated?

Yes — keep refrigerated. That is what the label says and it is the rule for ours: they belong in the fridge, not the cupboard. Packed into a lunchbox or a hiking bag they are fine for the day; it is days at room temperature that you want to avoid. Once the pack is open, close it up and put it back in the cold.

Serving & Pairing

As an aperitif, sliced on the bias with a Québec cheese, pickles and crusty bread. Whole in a lunchbox or a hiking pack, where they need neither knife nor plate. Sliced into rounds on a homemade pizza, or through an omelette, they stand in for pepperoni.

Charcuterie Board: How to Serve Them

Allow one or two sticks per person. Slice on the bias, about a centimetre thick — the angled cut gives wider slices and makes the board look fuller. Fan them around a firm cheese, add pickles or pickled beets for acidity and nuts for crunch, and take the board out of the fridge fifteen minutes before serving: the fat softens and the flavour opens up.

Pepperette Price & Ordering

• Price: $2.05 per stick

• Format: pack of approx. 40 to 60 g

• Product number: 1371689

• Ingredients: pork, spices, celery culture extract, sea salt, vinegar

• Allergens: mustards

• Gluten-free

• Storage: keep refrigerated

• Where to buy: home delivery across Quebec and Montreal in refrigerated trucks, free shipping over $225. Farm pickup at 62 rue York, Huntingdon — usually ready in 24 hours.