Sausage roll

Sausage roll

Details
Course served	Lunch / Snack
Type	Pastry
Main ingredient(s)	Puff pastry, sausage

A sausage roll is a British savoury pastry snack popular in the Commonwealth of Nations and countries of the European Union. In addition to being sold at retail outlets, they are also available from bakeries as a take-away food item. A miniature version is popular as a buffet or party food.

Composition

A Dutch sausage roll (saucijzenbroodje) showing the puff pastry surrounding the roll of minced meat inside.

The basic composition of a sausage roll is generally a sheet or sheets of puff pastry formed into tubes around sausage meat and glazed with egg or milk before being baked. They can be served either hot or cold. Historically, during the 19th century they were made using shortcrust pastry instead of puff pastry.

Sales

In the UK, the bakery chain Greggs sells around 2.5 million sausage rolls per week, or around 140 million per year.

In popular culture

• The Gilbert and Sullivan operetta The Grand Duke used sausage rolls as a plot device.
• They are frequently used in party scenes in the New Zealand TV series Outrageous Fortune.
• The Blackadder series makes mention of sausage rolls. In the first series, episode Born to be King, the Queen is loathing the return of her husband because she feels as she's "being used all night long, like the outside of a sausage roll." In the second series, episode Potato, her excitement at the return of Sir Walter Raleigh lends the Queen an excuse to describe some of her "pretty wild dreams," one of which is her being a sausage roll.

See also

• List of sausage dishes
• Klobasnek
• Pasty
• Pigs in a blanket
• Pork pie
• Sausage bread

External links

• Sausage Roll recipe - taste.com.au