Sausage roll

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Sausage rolls

A sausage roll is a type of savoury pastry. In addition to retail outlets they are available from bakeries as a take-away food item. A miniature version is popular as a buffet or party food.

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Composition [edit]

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.[1][2] They can be served either hot or cold.

Historically, during the 18th century they were made using shortcrust pastry instead of puff pastry.[3]

Sales [edit]

In the UK, bakery chain Greggs sells around 2.5 million sausage rolls per week,[4] which is around 140 million per year.[5] This led to it complaining about the addition of Value Added Tax added by the British Government to hot food takeaways in the 2012 budget.[4]

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References [edit]

  1. ^ "Sausage Rolls Recipes: Traditional sausage rolls". sausagelinks.co.uk. Retrieved 2009-10-28. 
  2. ^ "Sausage Roll Recipe". Food Network. Retrieved 2009-10-28. 
  3. ^ "Our New Cook-Book". Peterson's Magazine 15: 438. July 1866. Retrieved 26 March 2012. 
  4. ^ a b Kollewe, Julia (22 March 2012). "Budget 2012: Sausage roll VAT row turns unsavoury". The Guardian. Retrieved 26 March 2012. 
  5. ^ Wallop, Harry (22 March 2012). "Budget 2012: Greggs sausage rolls to be hit". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 26 March 2012. 

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