Happy National Biscuit Day, my friends!
To mark the occasion, I opened the vault brought out this humdinger of a post from November 2012, when DiS1972 was just a wee toddler.
Brace yourself, because this dish…OMG, this dish. It is emblazoned in my mind and has stuck with me for almost 8 years.
Please enjoy……
Sausage in Biscuits! That sounds tasty. Sausage: good. Biscuits: very good. Kinda like Nic’s British Sausage Rolls–which are just little pockets of heaven.
But then you get into the recipe and realize that this is made from refrigerator biscuits, canned Vienna Sausages, and creamed peas.
I am a masochist.
Or an idiot.
Help me, Jesus.
The first problem I encountered was how do I get them out of the can? after I grabbed at one and it disintegrated in my fingertips. However, I learned from The Vienna Sausage Website, that squishiness is a desirable quality in a Vienna sausage; it should be soft enough to be spread on a cracker. I also learned from The Vienna Sausage Website that you can make something called Vampire Bat Faces with the little canned weenies. Too bad I didn’t know that before Halloween.
I think that their hue may be their most unnerving quality. That’s the color of Barbie flesh. They also smell exactly like canned cat food (actually, I take that back, Brian’s food smells better).
So there you have it–4 Vienna Sausages in 4 little buttermilk biscuits. The rest I just made as biscuits. I love a biscuit. The eighth biscuit got a little mangled so I threw it out. And so they went into the oven.
For the frozen peas and cream sauce portion of the dish: they didn’t have frozen peas in cream sauce at the store (of course). But I had frozen peas at home so I just thought I’d try to throw together a white sauce.
But I didn’t have to. What did my little eye spy on the same shelf as the chicken gravy at the Safeway? Aunt Penny’s White Sauce!
White sauce! After all those Dinner is Served! recipe cards that said “make white sauce or used canned,” I finally found it! So this Wiener Wednesday was a joyous occasion!
And I was unimpressed. I nuked the frozen peas separately then heated the sauce and mixed them together. The consistency was mostly smooth. But the taste? Bland. So I go in with some salt and pepper. Hm. Celery salt. Eh. Old Bay. Yup. Lots and lots of Old Bay, it is!
So the little sausage biscuits came out of the oven and didn’t look bad. I topped them with the creamed peas.
I wish that they were croquettes.
I believe I’ve gone all the way down the rabbit hole, kittens. For chrissake I just wrapped mechanically-separated meat in ready-made pastry and topped it with creamed vegetables. The only thing that’s missing here is an aspic glaze.
Ew. These little sausage things were gross. They not only smelled like canned cat food, they tasted like it, too–or what I think that canned cat food would taste like. I’m not so out of my gourd that I’ve cracked open a can of 9 Lives and shared it with Brian. Besides, if I did, he’d bogart the entire can.
Anyway, I just couldn’t take these down. I had to throw the weenie-filled biscuits out. So I took one of the plain biscuits and put some of the creamed pea mix on top. With a lot of extra Old Bay.
Dinner is Served. Barf.
I am unnerved. I didn’t know what vienna sausages were until now and I am SHOCKED that Vincent Price specified these for his Toad in the Hole recipe. No way! https://www.silverscreensuppers.com/vincent-price/recipe-of-the-month-vincent-prices-toad-in-the-hole – now I will have to add a DISCLAIMER. No Brit would ever use such a sausage in a Toad.
I, too, am shocked that VP would allow the use of such an ingredient!
My dad used to get Vienna sausages occasionally. I tried a bite once and that’s enough to last me my entire life.
One bite was enough for me.
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, I was an immigrant kid, new to the American snack experience. I enthusiastically wanted to try every new food, snack and packaged food in the grocery isles. I eventually made my way to Vienna Sausages. Maybe it was because it was the late 70’s and 80’s and our tastes were different back then, but I remember liking them. Fast forward to sometime in the late 90’s-early 00’s, when out of nostalgia I decided to buy a can and try them again. That was a big HELL NO! Interestingly, it wasn’t so much the flavor that I couldn’t handle anymore, but the mushy, soft texture and the overwhelming amount of salt. Even if I can’t eat them anymore, they still have a special nostalgic place in my American experience.
I love vienna wienies but where I live it’s like a snack staple. We call it “potted meat with a hard on”!
That’s not really helping.
Those “sausages” are definitely barfolicious. Every few years, I’ll try a can to see if I still hate them and after taking a tiny nibble, the rest go for dog treats at the spca. They do make good training/conditioning treats because a little goes a long way.
Love the picture of Brian. Did he like belly rubs or was he being a tease? I’ve got three semi-feral foster kittens right now. They finally came out of the the carrier to play with each other while I was still in the room (and without a feather toy for enticement). Baby steps.