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Pigs in Blankets is the fanciful name for little sausages wrapped in pastry and baked. This tasty finger food has been popular in the Ozarks and other regions of America and Canada for decades, and some people think, mistakenly, that it was invented in 1957 when Pigs in Blankets first appeared in a Betty Crocker cookbook for children. In fact, Pigs in Blankets have been around since the 1800s or even earlier, though over time the term has referred to a variety of pastry-wrapped foods, including oysters wrapped in bacon. Some food historians surmise that sausages wrapped in pastry comprised the basic lunch for farm workers in the British Isles as far back as the 1600s.

Recipe included in: A Calendar of Tea Parties, September: An Ozark Farm Harvest Tea