Make mummified sausages for a spooky Halloween snack

A spooktacular snack for Halloween

Homemade ketchup ingredients 

• 1kg tomatoes
• 1 teaspoon of salt
• ½ teaspoon of chilli powder or a teaspoon of tabasco sauce
• 1 tablespoon of sugar
• 2 tablespoons of vinegar

Mummy Sausage ingredients 

• 6 veggie or meat sausages
• Ready-rolled puffy pastry
• 1 slightly beaten egg
• 1 tablespoon of flour
• Mustard (for the eyes!)

Let’s start making ketchup 

1. Chop up the tomatoes into quarters and remove any white pith (the core)
2. Place the tomatoes into a large saucepan on low heat with the lid on
3. Bring the tomatoes to a boil but keep the lid on!
4. Stir the tomatoes then let them simmer for 20 minutes
5. Turn off the heat and let the tomatoes cool down.
6. Put the tomatoes into a blender until smooth
7. Press the tomatoes through a sieve with a spoon
8. Pour the mixture back into the saucepan and add the vinegar, chilli, sugar, and bring the mixture to a boil
9. Add the tablespoon of cornflour
10. Let the ketchup simmer until it thickens
11. Perform a taste test (after the ketchup cools) and add extra seasoning if necessary

Mummify your sausages 

1. Preheat the oven (with adult supervision and permission!)
2. Dust a chopping board with flour and unflatten your ready-rolled puff pastry
3. Ask an adult to use a ruler and sharp knife to cut out strips of pastry that are 0.5cm wide
4. Make sure to cut 1 to 2 strips per sausage
5. The fun part begins – mummify the sausages by wrapping strips of pastry around each one
6. Place the sausages on a baking tray and bake for 15/20 minutes
7. Give your mummified sausages eyes with blobs of ketchup or mustard

This recipe was shared in issue 49 of Brilliant Brainz.