SAUSAGE ROLLS

Ingredients

1 batch short crust pastry dough (click for recipe)

12 hot dog sausages

½ cup ketchup

1 tsp mustard

Pinch of red pepper flakes or few dashes pepper sauce

1 egg, lightly beaten

Directions

1. Prepare the pastry for use.
2. Mix together the ketchup, mustard and pepper sauce.
3. Cut pastry in half and roll out into a rectangular shape on a floured board. Brush evenly with a layer of the ketchup mixture.
4. Lightly grease and flour a baking sheet or lightly spray with cooking spray. Preheat oven to 375 degrees F.
5. Cut the pastry into equal pieces vertically (averaging the length of the sausages. You should have 4 - 5 rectangular pieces of pastry.
6. Place a sausage on one piece of pastry at one end and roll to the other end, enclosing the sausage in the pastry. Dab a little water on the edge so that the pastry will be sealed.
7. Cut the large roll into an even 4 pieces and place on the prepared baking sheet. Repeat with the remaining pastry until all is used.
8. Brush the rolls with a little beaten egg.
9. Bake in preheated oven for 20 – 25 minutes or until the rolls are golden brown.
   Remove from the oven and place on a cooling rack for about 5 minutes before serving.