Sausage Rolls

Total Time: 50 mins Preparation Time: 30 mins Cook Time: 20 mins

Ingredients

• 8 ounces plain flour
• 1 pinch salt
• 5 ounces lard, and
• margarine (mixed)
• cold water, to mix
• 8 ounces sausage meat or 8 ounces skinless sausages
• beaten eggs or milk, to glaze

Recipe

• 1 mix flour and salt, add fat cut into small pieces.
• 2 stir in with a knife (do not rub in). mix to a stiff dough with water.
• 3 roll out on a floured surface to a narrow strip.
• 4 fold in three, give a quarter turn so one of the open ends is towards you and roll out again. do this three times.
• 5 cover pastry and leave to rest (about 15 minutes) then roll into desired shape. usually oblong.
• 6 in hot weather allow pastry to rest for 20-30 minutes in a refrigerator or cool place before use.
• 7 tip always take care to roll away from you and do not break the air bubbles that will rise.
• 8 heat oven to 230 c, gas mk 8 have ready a baking tray.
• 9 divide the pastry in two and roll each half to a long strip approximately 7.5 cm (3 inches) wide.
• 10 roll the sausage meat with floured hands into a sausage as long as the pastry strip, place on edges of pastry.
• 11 roll up pastry to enclose the meat, dampen the edge and seal well.
• 12 cut into lengths, place on the baking tray and brush with egg or milk and make 3 cuts on the top.
• 13 bake for about 20 minutes until golden brown.