On those rare days when rain stops play what better than to do some baking.

I don’t usually make a lot of pastry but this recipe adapted from a Julia Childs recipe worked so well. I ended up making Quiche Lorraine, Garlic mushroom Quiche, Sausage rolls and Quail egg and sausage rolls.

My preference is to use a food processor but of course it can be made without one.

Ingredients

1 level cup all purpose flour
1/2 tsp salt
3oz frozen butter
2 tablespoons Berkshire pork Lard
¼ cup iced water
4 Cobblestone Farm Breakfast or Cumberland burgers/sausage
1 Cobblestone Farm Free Range egg beaten

Directions

Food processor. Pulse fat into dry ingredients then with the motor running pour in cold water until the ingredients start to come together. Stop the machine as soon as the dough starts to clump together. Don’t overmix
Take pastry out of processor and form into ball - go to step 6
OR Put all dry ingredients into a bowl
Cut butter into chunks and add to dry ingredients with lard
Add most of the water and bring the dough together - you may need to add the rest of the water
Wrap the pastry in parchment and put it into the fridge for at least 2 hours to chill.
After chill time preheat oven to 400 F
On a lightly floured board roll out the pastry into a rectangle shape ⅛” thick.
If you are using sausages you can remove them from their skins otherwise shape burgers into a fat sausage shape.
Put sausage in centre of the pastry rectangle. Make sure the pastry can cover it then dab water along the pastry edge. Fold pastry over and seal edges with a fork.
Prick top of sausage roll with a fork every inch or so.
Brush pastry with beaten egg and place in the oven for about 30 mins until golden brown and the sausage meat is 165 internal temp.