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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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]
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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