Home made sausage rolls

[sausages]

Does anyone have a recipe for making sausage rolls from scratch? I would like to make some and put them in the freezer ready for baking. I would like to make a batch for playdates/ school lunches etc.

I know that they are not the healthiest food around, but perhaps making them myself could be the better option.

[love sausage rolls]

I just buy sausagemeat and puff pastry and thaw them both out and do it that way.  I'm not sure how you'd go about making the sausagemeat from scratch - I have tried to make my own sausagemeat in the past but it never tastes quite right, despite using different recipes.

As for the pastry - shortcrust is easy enough to make (loads of recipes online if you haven't got one), but if you're after puff pastry, I'd buy it - even Jamie Oliver buys it!

The butcher in Holland Village is one of the only places I've found sausagemeat lately - Cold Storage sometimes do a USA version (normally around Christmas time) but it's a horrible texture to roll I think (very mushy) - once it is cooked it's not too bad though.  The Butcher's version is a bit hard - too much meat (LOL!), but it's better than the CS one.  We used to get Saxby's here but CS have stopped doing it now for some reason.  You could also try getting normal sausages, skinning them and using the meat from them.

[Harriet.]

If you don't want to use sausage mince you can use minced pork. I use about 500gms mince pork, 1 grated onion, 1 grated granny smith apple, 3 rashes bacon diced finely, and a squirt of tomato sauce. Mix and then wrap in puff pastry. Sometimes I'll also add grated carrot and celery or a squirt of Worcestershire sauce too.

[marriedguy]

Does anyone have a recipe for making sausage rolls from scratch? I would like to make some and put them in the freezer ready for baking. I would like to make a batch for playdates/ school lunches etc.

I know that they are not the healthiest food around, but perhaps making them myself could be the better option.

Just like the roast chook thread I responded to, go down to that cooking shop in HV and buy a Womans Weekly cookbook. Bonza sausage roll recipe!

[Ginger Mo]

I do enjoy a good sausage roll...it should have just enough fat content to leave that all important roof of the mouth glaze.

All samples gratefully accepted.

[mix]

I find The Butcher's sausage meet too fatty, so 'cut it' with lean pork mince - about half and half. Add finely chopped onion and raw herbs.

I usually buy waitrose puff, but my spirit just soared when someone mentioned Saxby's pastry. Can't we campaign to get it back???

[love sausage rolls]

I find The Butcher's sausage meet too fatty, so 'cut it' with lean pork mince - about half and half. Add finely chopped onion and raw herbs.

I usually buy waitrose puff, but my spirit just soared when someone mentioned Saxby's pastry. Can't we campaign to get it back???

That was me, but it was the sausage meat they used to sell, not the pastry.

I find the Butcher's sausage meat too lean.......I suppose we're used to very fattening sausage rolls where I'm from.

My sister-in-law bought 3 packs of sausage meat to bring over at Christmas and we were really looking forward to some sausage rolls but she got caught up in that snow fiasco at Heathrow and her luggage ended up sitting there for nearly a week......it was in the cold but by the time she arrived it looked a bit grey and I wimped out of using it - probably did my waistline some good though 

[don'tdoit]

your kids are gonna be fat.

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lethargic because of the lack of vitamins and nutrients. High cholesterol. High blood pressure. Obese at twenty. First heart attack at 30. Nice!!!

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[OTT]

I think she's talking about an occasional treat, not feeding them sausage rolls on a daily basis 

[Agent99]

I made some with pork mince, grated carrot, and grated zucchini and cheese. Wrapped them in puff pastry (made with butter).

While it's a little high in the saturated fats, kids need the fats for brain development and we don't have it every day.

[sossposs]

Where I'm from they're just made with sausage meat and sometimes some herbs mixed in to it. 

OP, I did see some snack-sized veggie sausage rolls in the freezer at Cold Storage the other day.  That's the closest I've come to finding them ready made to cook at home here - apart from the Aussie microwave ones, but they're too big to give to the kids for a snack unless you cut them up......they're not that nice really either.

[In the pink]

Sossposs where have you been? Do you come from some barren land? Mixed herbs were outlawed when the revolution came. It's all about fresh again, using your hands, and making your own.

Jamie Oliver is the new messiah. Cold Storage is the place of evil. You have found this to be true. Eat from the cup of satan and suffer all. Let reflux and disappointment fall about those who stray from the path of righteous cookery.