Pigs in a blanket
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In the United States, pigs in a blanket are small hot dogs or other sausages individually wrapped in pastry. It is commonly served as an appetizer.
Ingredients and preparationEdit
In the United States the term "pigs in a blanket" typically refers to hot dogs in croissant dough, but may include Vienna sausages, cocktail or breakfast/link sausages baked inside biscuit dough or croissant dough. American cookbooks from the 1800s have recipes for "little pigs in blankets",<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> but this is a rather different dish of oysters rolled in bacon similar to angels on horseback. The modern version can be traced back to at least 1940, when a U.S. Army cookbook lists "Pork Sausage Links (Pigs) in Blankets".<ref>Template:Citation</ref>
The dough is sometimes homemade, but canned dough is most common. Pancake dough is also sometimes used, although this combination is more commonly served like a corn dog and sold as a pancake on a stick. The larger variety is served as a quick and easy main course or a light meal (particularly for children) at lunch or supper while the smaller version is served as an appetizer. In Texas, kolaches or klobasneks are a similar dish which originates from Czech immigrants. The meat or savory part, often a sausage but not always, is wrapped in kolache dough and not croissant dough. This dish in Texas is most commonly referred to as "kolache", although traditional Czech-style kolaches are a sweet dish, not a savory dish.<ref name="Johnston2018">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
ServingEdit
Smaller versions of the dish are commonly served as an appetizer or hors d'oeuvre, sometimes with a mustard or aioli dipping sauce, or are accompanied by other foods during the main course.Template:Cn
Similar dishesEdit
The cuisines of a number of countries have similar dishes under a variety of names.
In Belgium, this is a traditional dish from the city of Namur, where it is called avisance. Historically it was a sausage or sausage meat in bread dough, replaced nowadays with puff pastry.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
In Denmark, Norway, and Sweden, a hot dog wrapped in bread is called a fransk hot dog (Template:Lit).<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> The name is a reference to the bread's similarity to a baguette. In Denmark and Norway, American-style pigs in a blanket are known as {{#invoke:Lang|lang}}, meaning "sausage horns".
The German {{#invoke:Lang|lang}} ("sausage in a dressing gown") uses sausages wrapped in puff pastry<ref name="Germany">Würstchen im Schlafrock Template:Webarchive. Retrieved 9 September 2008</ref> or, more rarely, pancakes. Cheese and bacon are sometimes present.
In the Netherlands, Template:Interlanguage link is a puff pastry roll filled with seasoned minced meat.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
In the United Kingdom and Australia, pastry-wrapped sausage meat is known as a sausage roll.
See alsoEdit
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- Bagel dog
- Corn dog
- Hot dog
- Egg in the basket
- Galette-saucisse
- Klobasnek
- Pepperoni roll
- Sausage roll
- List of bread dishes
- List of sausage dishes
- List of stuffed dishes
- Toad in the hole