Rolling in the dough with Farmer Sausage Rolls….

Ok… I don’t usually post this close together.  Well last night I made an old time comfort food.  Don is STILL away on the REIN road, so I decided to make some mini sausage rolls.  The recipe was given to me by my Mom a long time ago and I think her sister, Auntie Alice, gave it to her.

Where we live we have a local butcher named Remple who makes THE BEST farmer sausage ever.  There are many a dispute among the Mennonites who is actually the KING of the Farmer Sausage, but my loyalty is with Remple.  There is just nothing quite like it.

So here is the recipe passed to me by my Mom.

 

 

 

Farmer Sausage Rolls

 

This is a very rich dough and is what makes this so nice.

I don’t cook the sausage ahead of time and it turns out.

You can make them as small or large as you like.

I use a large area on my island for rolling  out the dough

and just skim the knife down the dough and make

columns the width of the sausage and just roll them and

cut them as I go …. and then place on a cookie sheet.

 

3 3/4 cups flour

1 lb butter or margarine

2 cups cottage cheese

 

In blender, blend cottage cheese until it is very smooth

Cut butter/mar into flour

Mix smooth cottage cheese with flour mixture

Put dough in fridge for at least 15 min or overnight

Cut farmer sausage pieces into desirable size for the

size of sausage rolls you would like

If sausage is fatty, render it down by frying it a bit,  cool

Roll out dough quite thin

Place cooled sausage onto dough and use knife to cut

pieces and roll up sausage, seal edges well they like to separate.

For golden rolls, brush with beaten egg

Bake 400 F oven until done, about 20 minutes