Home made sausage rolls

[Agent99]

^^ your post made me look up Jamie's Recipe:

It's a real shame that sausage rolls have become viewed as junk food over the years.  You can make some really tasty ones using puff pastry.  Buy some good sausages - Cumberland ones are great - rip them open and discard the skins.  Put the meat into a bowl and add a handful of roughly chopped fresh herbs (try rosemary, sage, thyme).  Then add one or two of the following:  orange or lemon zest, some chestnuts, a little chopped apple or pear, and mix everything together to give you fantastically flavoured sausage meat.  All you then need to do is roll out your puff pastry until it's 200cm / 8 inches wide and just under 0.5cm / 1/4 inch thick, dusting with flour as needed.  Cut the sheet of pastry in half, so you have two 10cm / 4 inch wide strips.  Now get your sausage stuffing and divide it in half.  Roll each half into a sausage shape and lay these along the length of the two pastry stips.  Egg-wash the pastry, roll it up, and then use the back of a fork to mark and seal the pastry so it is tightly wrapped up.  Egg-wash the top of each, and cut the roll into shorter pieces if you want.  Bake at 220C/425F/gas 7 until golden, crisp and puffed up.

[In the pink]

Good work 99. You could do a lot worse than follow the word of Jamie. You can do better, but for now...get some in.

[Lard di da]

Sausage meat is very unhealthy. Try mincing beans, tofu and perhaps surimi fish sticks as an alternative

[sossposs]

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.

erm herbs mixed in.......not "mixed herbs"

Jamie Oliver's OK but he seems to think we're all so rich that we can pop down to the butcher and pick up half a free range, organic cow twice a week.  I prefer the Hairy Bikers meself.


As for his recipe - no thanks.  It's a sausage roll I'm making, not a mince pie - chopped fruit and nuts have no place in there.

[In the pink]

Sorry Soss, need my specs cleaned.

I had flashbacks to the days when fresh herbs consisted of curly parsley and wilted mint.

[sossposs]

that's OK - I remember the mixed herb days too - when that was all you had in the cupboard herb-wise.....along with a packet of table salt, white pepper (never black) and malt vinegar, oh and half a tub of sharwoods curry powder left over from the turkey curry you made after Christmas in 1973

[ex-pat]

Just finished making some LOL!  Anyway here is the recipe.  1kg sausage mince, 1 diced cooked onion, 2 pieces bread soaked in warm water, 2 tabs tomato sauce (ketchup) worcestershire sauce to taste, 1 teaspoon curry powder, salt and pepper, chopped parsley, Add in bowl (squeeze water from bread first),mix all together and pipe onto thawed puff pastry sheets (I cut these in half horizontally).  Fold over, glaze with eggwash and sprinkle with sesame seeds (optional).  Slice into 1 inch lengths and bake 180 for 20 mins till golden.