March 2025
In 1864 Edward Abbott gave a perfunctory description of the sausage roll, you can hardly call it a recipe, in The English and Australian Cookery Book. Cookery for the Many As Well the “Upper Ten Thousand”.
Sausage rolls are an excellent variety of relish, which is merely the sausage meat enveloped in paste, in any shape you wish; but we say again, beware those ready made, unless you know where and by whom.
In this article I look at some of the many versions of the home-made sausage roll to 1964, a hundred years after Abbott. I looked at recipes published in newspapers, magazines and a sample of cookery books. It happens that the cookery books were not the sites at which variations occurred. So, the recipes in this article are only those from newspapers and magazines.
