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Fancy or Book Sausage Roll

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Fancy or Book Sausage Roll

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Take a piece of best puff paste, roll it out to an eighth of an inch in thickness ; then cut it up in squares four inches square, lay them

  2. out on board ; then have the sausage meat ready, break it off* in

  3. pieces the size of a small egg ; roll them out three inches long and

  4. place one piece in the middle of each square of pastry, Now wet

  5. the edge of the pastry with water, then bring the part furthest from

  6. you over on to the part nearest to you, taking care to let it be back

  7. from the front at least one-fourth of an inch ; now wash these with

  8. egg, taking care not to allow the egg to run down over the sides

  9. of the pastry. Next give a few shallow cuts with a sharp knife ;

  10. then cut a leaf of pastry, place it in the center (do not wash it),

  11. and bake them a nice brown. If these are made well the edges

  12. will rise up and the roll will look like a book.

  13. 876 PASTRY,

By Wilcox, Estelle Woods, comp. Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures. See the original page.

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