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A sausage roll is a type of convenience food
Convenience food

Convenience food, or tertiary processed food, is commercially prepared food designed for ease of consumption. Products designated as convenience foods are often preprepared food stuffs that can be sold as hot, ready-to-eat dishes; as room temperature, shelf-stable products; or as refrigerated or frozen products that require minimal prep...
 commonly served at parties and available from baker
Baker

A baker is someone who primarily bakes and sells bread. Cakes and similar foods may also be produced, as the traditional boundaries between what is produced by a baker as opposed to a pastry chef have blurred in recent decades....
ies and milk bar
Milk bar

Milk bar is a term in some parts of Australia for suburban local shops or general stores. They are known as delicatessens or delis in South Australia and Western Australia, and as corner stores in Queensland and New South Wales....
s as a takeaway food item. The basic formula for a sausage roll is generally a sheet of puff pastry
Puff pastry

In baking, a puff pastry is a light, flaky, unleavened pastry containing several layers of fat which is in solid state at 20Celsius ....
 sliced into two and wrapped into tubes around a filling based on sausage
Sausage

A sausage is a prepared food, usually made from ground meat, animal fat, salt, and spices , typically packed in a casing . Sausage making is a traditional food preservation technique....
 meat, blended with softer ingredients such as soaked bread, onion and egg, before being cooked.






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A sausage roll is a type of convenience food
Convenience food

Convenience food, or tertiary processed food, is commercially prepared food designed for ease of consumption. Products designated as convenience foods are often preprepared food stuffs that can be sold as hot, ready-to-eat dishes; as room temperature, shelf-stable products; or as refrigerated or frozen products that require minimal prep...
 commonly served at parties and available from baker
Baker

A baker is someone who primarily bakes and sells bread. Cakes and similar foods may also be produced, as the traditional boundaries between what is produced by a baker as opposed to a pastry chef have blurred in recent decades....
ies and milk bar
Milk bar

Milk bar is a term in some parts of Australia for suburban local shops or general stores. They are known as delicatessens or delis in South Australia and Western Australia, and as corner stores in Queensland and New South Wales....
s as a takeaway food item. The basic formula for a sausage roll is generally a sheet of puff pastry
Puff pastry

In baking, a puff pastry is a light, flaky, unleavened pastry containing several layers of fat which is in solid state at 20Celsius ....
 sliced into two and wrapped into tubes around a filling based on sausage
Sausage

A sausage is a prepared food, usually made from ground meat, animal fat, salt, and spices , typically packed in a casing . Sausage making is a traditional food preservation technique....
 meat, blended with softer ingredients such as soaked bread, onion and egg, before being cooked. They can be served either hot or cold. Some variations on the basic recipe include chopped vegetable
Vegetable

The term "vegetable" generally means the Eating parts of plants. The definition of the word is traditional rather than scientific, however, and therefore the usage of the word is somewhat arbitrary and subjective, as it is determined by individual cultural customs of food selection and food preparation....
s and other seasoning
Seasoning

Seasoning is the process of imparting flavor to, or improving the flavor of, food. Seasonings include herbs, spices, and all other condiments, which are themselves frequently referred to as "seasonings"....
s such as herb
Herb

A herb is a plant that is valued for qualities such as medicinal properties, flavor, scent, or the like....
s and spice
Spice

A spice is a dried seed, fruit, root, bark, leaf, or vegetable used in nutritionally insignificant quantities as a food additive for the purpose of flavor, color, or as a preservative that kills harmful bacteria or prevents their growth....
s. Sausage rolls may be served in various lengths from 1 or 2 inch
Inch

An inch is the name of a Units of measurement of length in a number of different systems, including Imperial units, and United States customary units....
es (2.5 or 5 centimetre
Centimetre

A centimetre is a Units of measurement of length in the metric system, equal to one hundredth of a metre, which is the current International System of Units SI base unit of length....
) so called "party" or "cocktail" sausage rolls, up to 6 or 7 inch (15 to 18 centimetre) "jumbo" sausage rolls. In Northern Ireland
Northern Ireland

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, Australia
Australia

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the southern hemisphere comprising the Australia of the world's smallest continent, the major island of Tasmania, and numerous list of islands of Australia in the Indian Ocean and Pacific Oceans....
 and the Netherlands
Netherlands

The Netherlands is a country that is part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. It is a parliamentary democratic constitutional monarchy. The Netherlands is located in North-West Europe, and bordered by the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east....
, they have been known to be sold as large as 12 inches (30 centimetres) long.

A more gourmet
Gourmet

Gourmet is a culture ideal associated with the culinary arts of fine food and drink, or haute cuisine. The term and its associated practices may have negative connotations of elitism or snobbery, but is often used positively to describe people of refined taste and passion....
 version of the sausage roll is made by using some variety of sausage or frankfurter
Frankfurter

Frankfurter may refer to:*a sausage as made in Frankfurt; a hot dog*a resident of Frankfurt*a resident of Frankfurt Frankfurter is a German Jewish surname and may refer to:...
 as the filling. When the filling consists of beef fillet the dish is known as "Beef Wellington
Beef Wellington

Beef Wellington is a preparation of beef tenderloin coated with p?t? and duxelles, which is then wrapped in puff pastry and baked. Some recipes include wrapping the coated meat in a cr?pe to retain the moisture and prevent it making the pastry soggy....
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See also

  • Pigs in blankets
  • Sausage bread
    Sausage bread

    Sausage bread refers to American food using sausage and other ingredients rolled or enclosed in dough and cooked in an oven.Sausage bread is typically made from pizza dough and includes sausage, Mozzarella cheese and other ingredients such as mushrooms, onions, other vegetables, and various herbs, spices and sauces depending on the recipe....


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