The best Australia Day sausage roll recipes (2024)

FAQs

What do they call sausage rolls in Australia? ›

Sausage rolls are Australia's answer to America's Pigs in a Blanket – but (I'm going to say it!!) SO MUCH BETTER!!! A juicy homemade sausage mixture wrapped in puff pastry.

Why do my homemade sausage rolls have soggy bottoms? To prevent soggy sausage rolls, make sure your oven is preheated before cooking. Ensure to space out the sausage rolls on the baking tray when cooking to ensure there is enough room for the air to circulate and allow them to crisp up.

Why add cream to sausage rolls? I asked our foodie experts about Curtis' bakery trick and they confirmed that cream softens the breadcrumbs and stops the meat mixture from drying out, as the breadcrumbs won't suck up moisture from the meat and other ingredients.

If the filling is mostly meat it will shrink when baked and release a lot of fat. Both of these can cause splitting. Also you should wrap the pastry tightly over t sausage filling and moisten the edge of the pastry when you roll them up so the pastry sticks together on the join.

The closest I've found in The States is a Hot Dog type emulsified sausage wrapped in Croissant Pastry and baked. It's generally made from canned dough. And it's called…. Pigs In A Blanket.

The British sausage roll is not well-known in the United States. A staple of U.K. food since the 1800s, its distinguishing feature is the use of ground sausage meat rather than sausage in the casing. The closest American food is pigs in a blanket, which wraps hot dogs in crescent roll dough.

Undercooking: If the sausage rolls are not baked for long enough, the pastry might not fully cook, resulting in a soft and undercooked texture.

Prebake your crust

“Whenever it's possible, I prebake the crust,” says cookbook author and famed baker Dorie Greenspan. “It's such a good way to keep the bottom crisp and tasty.” This works best with single-crust pies, like Pecan Pie, Pumpkin Pie, and Chess Pie.

Wrapping meat in pastry dates back to the Ancient Greeks and Romans, but the modern sausage roll is thought to have originated in 19th Century France. Sausage rolls grew in popularity in London in the early 1800s as a cheap street food, and rapidly became a quintessentially British snack.

Radiant heat transfer from the lower burner transfers a lot of energy directly into the bottom of the baking sheet. That raises the temperature of the baking sheet and results in non-uniform cooking of your pastry item. That is why the bottom of your pastries are burning.

How can you tell if a sausage roll is undercooked? ›

How will I know if my sausage rolls are cooked through? When cooked the meat filling will still be soft. However, you can tell that they're cooked as the filling will have a very different texture from raw meat.

Hard pastry

Either you have added too much water or not enough fat, or the fat was not rubbed in sufficiently or was over-handled. Or the pastry was over-baked.

Bloating from the Packaging Method

Carothers explains that MAP is a packaging method in which a combination of gases is introduced into the package during processing, and it can add a little bloating or swelling to things like meat, seafood, salad mixes or cheese. In this case, there's likely nothing to worry about.

Why are sausages called snags? The Australian National Dictionary Centre suggests that snag as slang for "sausage" most likely derives from the earlier British slang for "light meal", although it makes no comment on how it came to be specifically applied to sausages.

A sausage sizzle (also referred to as 'sausage in bread' or a sausage sandwich) is a grilled or barbecued sausage (most commonly beef or pork) served in sliced bread or a bun with grilled onions and various condiments, most commonly tomato sauce, barbecue sauce or mustard.

"Democracy sausage" is the colloquial name for a sausage wrapped in a slice of bread, bought from a sausage sizzle operated as a fundraiser at Australian polling places on election day, often in aid of the institutions that house the polling place.

In Australia, 'roll' refers to a plain roll made of bread, aka bread roll, or a roll filled with just about anything: a bacon and egg roll, sausage roll, or ham and cheese roll. There's also a sausage roll that's meat surrounded by puff pastry.