Sausage Rolls

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Cooking time: 15 - 20 minutes
Preparation time: 25 minutes

Equipment needed
Baking sheet or tray
Rolling pin
A cup and a pastry brush

Ingredients for 12 - 16 rolls you require:
1lb pack of frozen puff pastry. (thawed overnight in the refrigerator)
8 oz sausage meat
salt and ground pepper to season the sausage meat.
1 egg small whipped up in the cup.

What you do is:

  • Roll out the pastry into a long strip.
  • Roll out the sausage meat into a long strip half as wide as the pastry.
  • Place the long strip of sausage meat exactly in the centre of the long strip of pastry.
  • With a pastry brush paint around the sausage strip lightly with egg-wash.
  • Fold the pastry over the sausage meat to join at the edges, and make slits in the top with a sharp knife.
  • Crimp the edges down with a fork and cut the rolls into the lengths required.
  • Paint the top of the sausage rolls with egg-wash.
  • Bake in the oven for 15 minutes on 450F until golden brown.
  • Cook at 375F for a further 5 minutes.