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Pigs in blankets

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ssor

Pigs in blankets

I make my own sausage and I bake my own bread. The other day My wife asked If I could make pigs in blankets with some of my sausage mix.

I made a 25 percent whole grain dough using whole wheat and rye in equal parts. I refrigerated the dough over night because it is easier to roll out thinly when it is cold. I made an Italian sausage mix and extruded it without casing it and wrapped it in a single layer of dough and sealed the join and cut it free with a pizza wheel.

Nut pick shows scale.

Dinner fork shows scale.

The sausage bakes when the bread bakes. It is a meat product so it must be refrigerated and is best when heated.

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PaddyL

...does it take for that bit of bread to bake?  I'd feel safer at least partially cooking the sausage first.

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ssor

 

Twenty minutes . The meat temperature is 195 F by instant thermometer.

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aecummingsII

Where's the greasiness? No sogginess around the cooked meat...amazing!  A little mustard for dipping...yum.

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ssor

 I control the fat content to less than 20 percent of the total sausage mix. Remember that these are only about the size of a finger. Therefore there isn't much fat.

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flournwater

.... and the nut pick in the photo is used for ????

Hey - I think my wife has been looking for that fork.  Well, it matches her set anyway ;>)

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ssor

 

Did she lose one in Bangor, Maine in 1958 ? That's when we got those.  I don't know why the nut pick was on the table. Maybe I was cleaning my finger nails. ;)

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flournwater

Never been to Maine, let alone Bangor.  But the time period is about right for when she bought her set.  We still use it every day.

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G-man

I've been working up the nerve to make pigs in blankets with my own sausage for a while, but I've never been quite sure about whether the sausage will cook up with the bread or if one will cook significantly faster than the other.

I think it's time to give this a shot.