A Picnic For A King!

 So this weekend we went on a 'winter picnic' to Leeds Castle!! It's actually in a little village called Leeds near Maidstone, not in 'Leeds' at all....

Anyho I was put in charge of sorting out a picnic. The menu consisted of:

Sarnies
Ham & Mustard
Cheese & pickle
Eggg mayonaise & cress on homemade tomato parmesan bread
Home-made sausage rolls (recipe below)
Choco chewy bites (recipe in previous post)
& Linzer biscuits (will post them soon...)
Tasty Homemade Sausage Rolls
(People have been at me for ages to make these!! Here you go)
recipe:
• 1 tablespoon butter
• 1 red onion, peeled and finely sliced
• a sprig of fresh sage, leaves picked
• a handful of breadcrumbs
• fresh nutmeg, for grating
• 6 good-quality pork sausages (used Porkie Whites - with recommendation from Bert Bouwens)
• 250g ready-made puff pastry
• 1 egg
• a little milk

method:
Preheat the oven to 180ºC/350ºF/gas 4. Melt the butter in a saucepan and add the onions. Cook gently for about 20 minutes until soft and golden brown. Add the sage leaves, cook for a couple of minutes more and then spread out on a plate to cool.

With a sharp knife, slit the skins of the sausages and pop the meat out. Put it in a mixing bowl with the cooled sage and onion mix and the breadcrumbs, then scrunch well with your clean hands to mix together.

On a floured work surface, roll the pastry out into a big rectangle as thick as a pound coin and cut it lengthways into two long, even rectangles. Roll the mixture into sausage shapes with your hands and lay along the centre of each rectangle.

Mix the egg and milk and brush the pastry with the mixture, then fold one side of the pastry over, wrapping the filling inside. Press down with your fingers or the edge of a spoon to seal the join.

Cut the long rolls into the sizes you want and space them out on a baking tray. Brush with the rest of the egg wash and bake in the preheated oven for 25 minutes or until puffed, golden and cooked through. Serve and watch grown men fight over them, it's actually quite amusing!

Wearing two Grannies Inc wooly hats (they're the stripy ones)

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