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Birthday, buffet food, buffet recipes, buffets, home, party, party food, party recipes, Recipes, sausage rolls, The Lake District
It is my birthday this weekend, so I am heading back to the Lake District to spend it at home with my family. On Sunday I have planned to get my family and friends together to have some food, drinks and a bit of fun. My mum will be preparing most of the food (with my help of course) but she is such an amazing cook it would be daft to do the cooking myself. We are just having a light, summery style buffet; it was meant to be a barbecue but the forecast is dodgy so we will bring the summer indoors instead.
As boring as it sounds, you really can’t beat a party buffet filled with typical finger foods, but by making everything from scratch and adding a few homely twists, the most simple foods can be impressive and taste fantastic. I will post photos and recipes next week but here is one traditional buffet item that never fails to please:
Homemade sausage rolls
Ingredients:
For the short pastry:
200g Plain Flour
100g Salted Butter
Sausage meat filling:
1 tablespoon melted butter
1 red onion, peeled and finely sliced
Half handful chopped fresh sage
1 handful fresh breadcrumbs
½ tsp grated nutmeg
350g good quality pork sausage meat or meat taken from sausages of your choice
1 egg – beaten
Method
- Preheat the oven to 180ºC/350ºF/gas 4.
- Combine the butter, onion, sage, nutmeg, breadcrumbs and sausage meat and set aside
- Combine the flour and butter and chill for 30 minutes.
- Roll out the pastry into a large square and cut into 2 rectangles.
- Divide the sausage mixture in two and spread along the length of each pastry strip in a cylinder shape, leaving a 1cm edge.
- Tightly roll the pastry around the sausage meat and brush the ends with the beaten egg to secure. Brush tops with egg.
- Use a sharp knife to cut each roll into 10 pieces, each about 2.5cm long, and place on a baking sheet or freeze for up to 1 month.
- Bake for 25 minutes or 10 minutes longer if from frozen.
Homemade sausage rolls
