Baton Twirlings Slow Cooker Cottage Roll Recipes

Steps:

• Remove congealed surface fat from cooking liquid and discard.
• If you don't have cooking liquid from Baton Twirling's Slow Cooker Cottage Roll recipe, leave it out and substitute any kind of stock or water.
• While chopping vegetables, heat liquid in saucepan or microwave a few minutes until warm.
• Pour liquid into slow cooker along with peas, carrots, celery, onion, thyme and pepper.
• Add cooking liquid or any kind of stock or water to within 2 inches of top of slow cooker.
• Stir, cover and cook on low setting 10 to 12 hours or until peas and vegetables are soft.
• In food processor or blender, purée soup in batches until smooth.
• If necessary, return to slow cooker to heat to serving temperature (or on stove in saucepan or in microwave).
• Add diced cottage roll, if using, to soup before heating.
• Season to taste with salt and pepper.

Steps:

• Remove wrapper from cottage roll.
• Rinse and place in slow cooker with peppercorns, bay leaf, celery, carrot, onion, bacon and potato.
• Add water to within 1 inch of top of slow cooker.
• Cover and cook on low setting 8 to 10 hours.
• Remove cottage roll, strain cooking liquid, discarding vegetable and seasonings.
• Take about 1/4 cup of the liquid& mix it with brown sugar& butter.
• Spread evenly over cottage roll, place under the broiler turning& basting often till it is browned.
• Slice cottage roll& serve.
• If desired, refrigerate remaining liquid overnight for Slow Cooker Split Pea Soup.

Steps:

• See above