Yesterday I started having a craving for Sister Schubert’s Parker House style sausage yeast rolls. No, not the sausage pinwheels. We’ll get to those later. The ones I am talking about were discontinued a few years ago for no reason. You used to find them in the frozen section next to the plain Parker House yeast rolls from the same brand. For those who never experienced one of these and don’t know what I am talking about - Take a Little Smokey sausage and stick it in the middle of a Sister Schubert yeast roll. It’s the best version of a pig in a blanket and it used to be a breakfast staple in my house from the time I was single to me being married with kids. But inexplicably the Sister decided to discontinue these fine pigs in a blanket and replaced them with a culinary abomination called sausage pinwheels. In short, the replacement rolls are garbage. Now I will give the Sister credit for continuing her Parker House dinner rolls as well as her regular yeast dinner rolls. I also give her credit for her cinnamon rolls with cream cheese frosting, which are the next best thing to homemade. But I still will never forgive her for discounting those sausage yeast roll pigs in a blanket.
As I am sitting here now sipping on my home roasted Ethiopian Dry Pricess Sidamo coffee, I have decided to recreate these rolls myself using said Sister Schubert Parker House Rolls. After thawing the rolls completely overnight, I carefully cut a small slit through each roll using a butter knife and gently inserted a Little Smokey into each roll. I put the sausage stuffed rolls back into their round tin pans and baked them per package directions. Folks, I must say these came out pretty damn good. They taste very close to the originals. So, if you have a hankering’ for those discontinued Sister Schubert yeast sausage rolls, do what I did and make your own. You won’t regret it.
As I am sitting here now sipping on my home roasted Ethiopian Dry Pricess Sidamo coffee, I have decided to recreate these rolls myself using said Sister Schubert Parker House Rolls. After thawing the rolls completely overnight, I carefully cut a small slit through each roll using a butter knife and gently inserted a Little Smokey into each roll. I put the sausage stuffed rolls back into their round tin pans and baked them per package directions. Folks, I must say these came out pretty damn good. They taste very close to the originals. So, if you have a hankering’ for those discontinued Sister Schubert yeast sausage rolls, do what I did and make your own. You won’t regret it.
