1 c All-purpose flour
1 ts Baking powder
1/4 ts Baking soda
1/4 ts Salt
3 tb Toasted wheat germ
1/4 c Chilled vegetable shortening
1/3 c Buttermilk or plain yogurt
1 lg 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.
Yield: 20 pigs-in-blankets
Yields
1 Servings