Recipe By : Cooking Live Show #CL8920
Serving Size : 1 Preparation Time :0:00
Categories : Cooking Live Import
Amount Measure Ingredient -- Preparation Method
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1 cup all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/4 teaspoon baking soda
1/4 teaspoon salt
3 tablespoons toasted wheat germ
1/4 cup chilled vegetable shortening
1/3 cup buttermilk or plain yogurt
1 large egg yolk
10 frankfurters -- ends trimmed and
-- frankfurters
-- halved crosswise
Preheat oven to 375 degrees F. and grease a large baking sheet.
In a bowl whisk together flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt, and
wheat germ. Blend in shortening with a pastry blender or your
fingertips until mixture resembles coarse meal. In a small bowl whisk
together buttermilk or yogurt and yolk and stir into flour mixture,
stirring until mixture just forms a moist dough.
Knead dough 4 times on a floured surface and with a floured rolling
pin roll out into a 12-inch square. Cut dough into 1 1/2-inch-wide
strips and roll a strip around middle of a frankfurter until dough
just overlaps. Cut pig-in-blanket free from strip and make 19 more
pigs-in-blankets in same manner, arranging them, seam side down, as
they are made on prepared baking sheet. Pigs-in-blankets may be
prepared up to this point 1 day ahead and chilled, covered.
Bake pigs-in-blankets in upper third of oven until pale golden, about
15 minutes.
