In the US pigs in blankets are usually served as appetizers, small sausages (often precooked called 'smokies') wrapped in pastry and baked. Very tasty.
So I went down the pigs-in-blankets origin rabbit hole. It seems in some parts of the USA pigs-in-blankets were 'oysters drained and pickled, and wrapped in bacon' but now called angles-on-horseback. Pigs-in-blanket(US) looks like what we'd(UK) call a sausage roll, i.e wrapped in pastry. Meanwhile, in Germany, the meaty treat is affectionately known as Würstchen im Schlafrock (aka ‘sausage in a dressing gown’), and it also comprises of a sausage wrapped in puff pastry. The variations of foreign pigs in blankets don’t stop there, either. Mexican pigs in blankets are sausages wrapped in tortillas and deep fried in vegetable oil, and they’re known as “salchitaco”. And, China’s pig in blanket equivalent is known as Lap Cheong Bao and is a pastry encased sausage which is steamed rather than baked. It’s likely that here in the UK, we eventually realised that it made more sense to call the sausage-based recipes ‘pigs in blankets’, and so we phased the oysters out. Thus, bacon wrapped pigs in blankets became the norm for us instead, and over time, recipes using pastry morphed into the sausage roll as we know it. However, they’re now so popular that there’s a dedicated Pigs In Blankets Day, and over 128 million of the festive staple are served on Christmas Day alone. Yummy!
Yes! We have pigs in blankets in America. The ones I've had are wrapped in crescent rolls instead of bacon, though. But I have heard of bacon wrapped too.
A chef shared a tip regarding boiling sausages for ten minutes then all you have to do is finish them off in the frying pan. Nice to see you with bushcraft shenanigans...!
Pigs in blankets aren’t a big thing in my neck of the woods in Northern California but what a fantastic idea. You’ve made me hungry and inspired me to hike to my local woods and make coffee with my low rent Jetboil which consists of a Fire Maple Petrel pot and GreenPeak stove, cheers.
You could have dipped your bread bun in the dripping and maybe fried/ toasted it a bit instead of sauce. Also, pigs in blankets make great toad in the hole!
While camping on Mull near Tobermory there was a group of French scouts on summer camp and they invited me over and they made apple pancakes. Pancakes are fantastic camp food. Going for picnics beats paying a tenner in a cafe full of coughing kids. Picnics used to be an art form. One could have a list of places to have a picnic in. By a river, by a castle, by a waterfall , in a cave etc. Could easily do a roast dinner on a real fire [probably where it came from?]. I've seen people make bread, pies, puddings.
I usually cook the Turkey on the BBQ most years (traditional Webber kettle BBQ). It frees up space in the oven for everything else if there’s lots of people to cook for. I use the BBQ pit boys turkey recipe. In theory you could cook it all outdoors however it would be tricky because you need a BBQ hotter to roast potatoes than you do a turkey so you would either have dry turkey or non crispy soggy roasties!
In the US, Pigs in a Blanket are different for everyone, but generally they're a type of sausage in a type of bread. For us, usually a hotdog, wrapped in a crescent roll (think a denser croissant) and baked. Dip in mustard to eat. Kinda difficult to cook in camp, because it had to be baked.
Pig in a blanket = Hot Dogs or Sausages wrapped in bacon where I come from 🐾🇺🇸🐶 Scalloped potatoes with hotdog slices and bacon was a hiking/canoe camping favorite with me as a kid.
Cool mate, nice vid thanx, little tip for peeps with regard to pigs in blankets.... The bacon will shrink and often uncurls or starts to fall off the sausages. So, if you stretch the bacon first, just use the back of a knife to "drag" it so it gets a bit thinner / longer, then wrap the bacon round the sausages. That way they will not shrink as much and less likely to uncurl or fall off. Cheers (I'm hungry now, Lol!... 8-)
Paul..Friend.....My best wishes to you and yours over the Christmas and New Year weeks. Make sure you rest, relax and enjoy. Take a well deserved break pal. Thank you for your efforts the last year. My genuine best regards to you and your lovely family x
Paul, you do not have to answer to anyone (apart from Jo....) about cooking outdoors. We love it. Never stop being you (Nice Beanie by the way, your new fave?? )
I do like to see some of the back to basics with the tarp shelter, I used to make woodland shelters and spend a few days away from this modern World, it can get too much to deal with, so escaping and back to basics is a great way to reset daily life.
On a seroius note i do proper sausage wrapped in back bacon done in the air fryer ... 100% game changer in the air fryer... obviously with mash and gravy .. sometimes peas, coz you know .. that 5 a year thing 😉😁👍✌️🤘
Love this Paul, My outdoor PIB's are bratwurst from one of the German shops, wrap them in bacon or pancetta and pan fried the same way, they hold their shape and travel quite well, I throw some ketchup and curry powder in a tube or even put the curry ketchup (currywurst) as part of the 'glue' that keeps the bacon on and premake them and stored with a vacuum sealer over night....It doesn't matter, If you do this in the garden, I use an old fishing umbrella and a bluet stove from my army days, there is something about cooking outdoors, I feel it is good for your mental health and feeling 'small', connected....love your posts mate...
Setting up a tarp in a nice woodland, making and cooking your own Pigs in Blankets - how can that not be great in every respect? Why do we only do Pigs in Blankets on Christmas Day? They are so good and so easy, shouldn't we do them with every Sunday roast. I do a vegan Pigs in Blankets for my wife, kind of works and tastes pretty good. Happy Christmas to you and yours. Hope you feel the year has ended well and 2025 will be even better.
Me and my mates boys n girls used to smoke a little something, bit of fishing, chat shit and eat burgers. We bonded and i still love camping now. Keep up the good work 👍🏾🇬🇧🇯🇲
I made a short a while back that briefly shows it CAMPING hacks | Save cash | Gas canister refill #Shorts ruclips.net/user/shortsnq8mVEx__YQ?feature=share
Simon, a bloke in the woods, Kent Survival, and many others have all done 'Campfire Christmas Dinners.' Perhaps that could be a challenge for you and Jo (but not on Christmas Day itself lol)?
Sausage wrapped in bacon, cooked in a massive block of lard in a TEFLON skillet - AND using a BLACK SPATULA! What did you do? Read every warning out there and go out of your way to spite them?
I am in Portugal and a I speak native portuguese. However I just want to alert you that the automatic sound track in portuguese/ brasilian superposed by default to your lip movements, is very desagreable to ear. Besides, the automatic vídeo title transelation in portuguese is completely wrong. Also the artificial voice entonation from Artficial Inteligence is completely weird. Imediately I switched to standard english. Much better indeed.😂 " Pigs Jetboil in blanckets" is what portuguese people can read....and understand.
In the US pigs in blankets are usually served as appetizers, small sausages (often precooked called 'smokies') wrapped in pastry and baked. Very tasty.
Where was my breakfast invite lol.
Very festive.
Perfect setting for your cafe
So I went down the pigs-in-blankets origin rabbit hole. It seems in some parts of the USA pigs-in-blankets were 'oysters drained and pickled, and wrapped in bacon' but now called angles-on-horseback. Pigs-in-blanket(US) looks like what we'd(UK) call a sausage roll, i.e wrapped in pastry.
Meanwhile, in Germany, the meaty treat is affectionately known as Würstchen im Schlafrock (aka ‘sausage in a dressing gown’), and it also comprises of a sausage wrapped in puff pastry.
The variations of foreign pigs in blankets don’t stop there, either. Mexican pigs in blankets are sausages wrapped in tortillas and deep fried in vegetable oil, and they’re known as “salchitaco”.
And, China’s pig in blanket equivalent is known as Lap Cheong Bao and is a pastry encased sausage which is steamed rather than baked.
It’s likely that here in the UK, we eventually realised that it made more sense to call the sausage-based recipes ‘pigs in blankets’, and so we phased the oysters out.
Thus, bacon wrapped pigs in blankets became the norm for us instead, and over time, recipes using pastry morphed into the sausage roll as we know it.
However, they’re now so popular that there’s a dedicated Pigs In Blankets Day, and over 128 million of the festive staple are served on Christmas Day alone. Yummy!
Quite a big rabbit hole that 😂
Please just be careful with the rabbit from Monty Python. It's a killer rabbit
Yes! We have pigs in blankets in America. The ones I've had are wrapped in crescent rolls instead of bacon, though. But I have heard of bacon wrapped too.
Can’t beat cooking and munching outdoors
I like the way your going Paul. Cooked a Christmas Dinner of sorts on a open fire when I was in the services.
A chef shared a tip regarding boiling sausages for ten minutes then all you have to do is finish them off in the frying pan. Nice to see you with bushcraft shenanigans...!
I’m going to try that
Always pre boil my sausages, especially in the hospitality industry
I like the simplicity of your hobby. Keep It Simple.
Pigs in blankets aren’t a big thing in my neck of the woods in Northern California but what a fantastic idea. You’ve made me hungry and inspired me to hike to my local woods and make coffee with my low rent Jetboil which consists of a Fire Maple Petrel pot and GreenPeak stove, cheers.
You could have dipped your bread bun in the dripping and maybe fried/ toasted it a bit instead of sauce. Also, pigs in blankets make great toad in the hole!
Looks delicious. I can smell the bacon from here. Everytime in the woods is special, full of meaning and time to enjoy the nature. Love your videos. 🤩
It's the little pleasures in life that many people don't enjoy 😅
While camping on Mull near Tobermory there was a group of French scouts on summer camp and they invited me over and they made apple pancakes. Pancakes are fantastic camp food. Going for picnics beats paying a tenner in a cafe full of coughing kids. Picnics used to be an art form. One could have a list of places to have a picnic in. By a river, by a castle, by a waterfall , in a cave etc. Could easily do a roast dinner on a real fire [probably where it came from?]. I've seen people make bread, pies, puddings.
British Army Standard Hotel Accommodation👍🏻can't beat it for versatility! Your meal was a few steps up from ration packs tho 🤤
Not a Christmas dinner without Pigs in Blankets 😍
Every Sunday roast involving chicken or turkey in my house!
I usually cook the Turkey on the BBQ most years (traditional Webber kettle BBQ). It frees up space in the oven for everything else if there’s lots of people to cook for. I use the BBQ pit boys turkey recipe.
In theory you could cook it all outdoors however it would be tricky because you need a BBQ hotter to roast potatoes than you do a turkey so you would either have dry turkey or non crispy soggy roasties!
They're called 'Hogs In Duvets' in America...
I have seen 2 blokes cooking a full Christmas dinner with 2 Trangia sets. i think it was the chap who used to sell lightweight gear
Out in the woo.. bloke walks past with his dog. 😊 Still a great little experiment.
In the US, Pigs in a Blanket are different for everyone, but generally they're a type of sausage in a type of bread. For us, usually a hotdog, wrapped in a crescent roll (think a denser croissant) and baked. Dip in mustard to eat. Kinda difficult to cook in camp, because it had to be baked.
Pig in a blanket = Hot Dogs or Sausages wrapped in bacon where I come from 🐾🇺🇸🐶
Scalloped potatoes with hotdog slices and bacon was a hiking/canoe camping favorite with me as a kid.
Great video should try Cumberland sausages wrapped in bacon. With brown sauce in the in the role takes it to another level
Cool mate, nice vid thanx, little tip for peeps with regard to pigs in blankets.... The bacon will shrink and often uncurls or starts to fall off the sausages. So, if you stretch the bacon first, just use the back of a knife to "drag" it so it gets a bit thinner / longer, then wrap the bacon round the sausages. That way they will not shrink as much and less likely to uncurl or fall off. Cheers (I'm hungry now, Lol!... 8-)
Yep cooked full traditional roast beef Christmas dinner camping over Christmas in Wiltshire, Cooked on open fire
Paul..Friend.....My best wishes to you and yours over the Christmas and New Year weeks. Make sure you rest, relax and enjoy. Take a well deserved break pal. Thank you for your efforts the last year. My genuine best regards to you and your lovely family x
A decent chipolata and decent smoked streaky bacon
Crikey, Paul, that's me right hungry now! Lovely stuff.
Bloody starving now....!!!
Yes, I think Simon a bloke in the woods did one a while back. Full on Christmas dinner.
Paul, you do not have to answer to anyone (apart from Jo....) about cooking outdoors. We love it. Never stop being you (Nice Beanie by the way, your new fave?? )
I do like to see some of the back to basics with the tarp shelter, I used to make woodland shelters and spend a few days away from this modern World, it can get too much to deal with, so escaping and back to basics is a great way to reset daily life.
Pigs looked good in the frying pan Paul.
On a seroius note i do proper sausage wrapped in back bacon done in the air fryer ... 100% game changer in the air fryer... obviously with mash and gravy .. sometimes peas, coz you know .. that 5 a year thing 😉😁👍✌️🤘
I wasn’t subscribed for when you were bushcrafting but I’m all for it!!! What are your thoughts on hot tent camping??
Take me back to the 80s, anyone remember roast chicken in a can?
Love this Paul, My outdoor PIB's are bratwurst from one of the German shops, wrap them in bacon or pancetta and pan fried the same way, they hold their shape and travel quite well, I throw some ketchup and curry powder in a tube or even put the curry ketchup (currywurst) as part of the 'glue' that keeps the bacon on and premake them and stored with a vacuum sealer over night....It doesn't matter, If you do this in the garden, I use an old fishing umbrella and a bluet stove from my army days, there is something about cooking outdoors, I feel it is good for your mental health and feeling 'small', connected....love your posts mate...
I like this, more like this please
Simon, A Bloke In The Woods cooks a camping Christmas dinner every year. Check it out. 😉
Absolutely buzzing with that set up Paul I’ve got the same tarp and never used it now I will 😊
Setting up a tarp in a nice woodland, making and cooking your own Pigs in Blankets - how can that not be great in every respect? Why do we only do Pigs in Blankets on Christmas Day? They are so good and so easy, shouldn't we do them with every Sunday roast. I do a vegan Pigs in Blankets for my wife, kind of works and tastes pretty good.
Happy Christmas to you and yours. Hope you feel the year has ended well and 2025 will be even better.
Me and my mates boys n girls used to smoke a little something, bit of fishing, chat shit and eat burgers.
We bonded and i still love camping now.
Keep up the good work 👍🏾🇬🇧🇯🇲
Beauty!!!!
I'd part cook the sausage first but they still looked good👍
Hey paul, can't beat them morrisons salt n pepper breadcakes!!
i seem to recall watching a US outdoors video once where the guy was told to squeal like a pig in a blanket. didn't end well .......
I read the title and instantly thought ... looks nothing like a blanket, it looks like a down jacket 🤭🤣🤣🤣👍✌️🤘
The fish restaurant where i go still fries in fat and if you wont it in oil you have to order and wait ( this is the way )😂
Pigs in blankets at Christmas or as you may know them as relatives sleeping the spare room. (GARY Delaney)
Xmas dinner challenge on camp stove sounds good
👍
Was Castaway the one with Amanda Donahoe? Would've worked for me!
...tryin' to loose weight before Christmas Paul?
I probably missed it but which mug is keeping the brew steaming Paul?
Can't beat a pigs in blankets sarnie! Which stool are you using?
This is great an simple camping, i like it. Thanks for showing. Question: whats the name of the "chair" and where can i get it?
Probably not able to cook our xmas dinner on a camping stove - we have lasagne on xmas day!
how do you refill the smaller ones ? have you a video on that,i hadnt even realised you can refill them lol
I made a short a while back that briefly shows it CAMPING hacks | Save cash | Gas canister refill #Shorts
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@@PaulMessner thanks
🤤🤤🤤 #mouthgasm Bacon wrapped sausages
BARM!! 😂
Camping with Josh.
And my diet is gone in 3..2..1
Ever thought of taking a flask of coffee into the woods? Might be a lot less hassle.
I bet that tarp was at least £700 😂
They looked completely raw 😂 hope your guts were ok
Pat made a sunday dinner, same thing i guess
Simon, a bloke in the woods, Kent Survival, and many others have all done 'Campfire Christmas Dinners.'
Perhaps that could be a challenge for you and Jo (but not on Christmas Day itself lol)?
Come on Paul, we all know it's a breadcake 😉
bit dry that Paul lol
Hello Paul, Christmas Dinner I a Trangia you can do it.
Jo said she’d bring her stove and give me a hand 🥘
That's what you should call "swine in a sleeping bag".
10 second rule mate , be fine if you drop em
Sausage wrapped in bacon, cooked in a massive block of lard in a TEFLON skillet - AND using a BLACK SPATULA!
What did you do? Read every warning out there and go out of your way to spite them?
Living on the edge 😂
Are you kidding that is damn idyllic. Not at all daft , so sensible you could or should bottle it ❤️🐾🫶
Any Americans click on this video intrigued about how he planned on making little sausages wrapped in crescent rolls/puff pastries on a camping stove?
My thoughts exactly! Paul’s version looks delicious too
Lol. Yup. That is what I thought too. 😂
👍👍👍❤️❤️🎉🎉
Gas I've been getting the 450g ones to refill the 100g. Currently 100g is £4 and 450g is £7 so it's 40% the cost to refill.
Bread cake is just pure wrong, its a cob haha
Big, big mistake watching this at 22:30 !!
People that ask why have never cooked outdoors.
I am in Portugal and a I speak native portuguese. However I just want to alert you that the automatic sound track in portuguese/ brasilian superposed by default to your lip movements, is very desagreable to ear. Besides, the automatic vídeo title transelation in portuguese is completely wrong. Also the artificial voice entonation from Artficial Inteligence is completely weird. Imediately I switched to standard english. Much better indeed.😂 " Pigs Jetboil in blanckets" is what portuguese people can read....and understand.
I so dislike the pig's in blankets as it's pig's in pigs. Just call it sausages wrapped in bacon.
We also have those in Nova Scotia but my bloodline is from Scotland/Ireland/England so no doubt it is not a Canadian discovery....lol.
Pual's tarped out - now there's only one thing getting him down...........gravity !