The Yummy Lummy 2019 Australian Federal Election Democracy Sausage

The Yummy Lummy 2019 Australian Federal Election Democracy Sausage

Dedicated to the Athenians for the concept of democracy.

Grateful to Australian pigs for their sacrifice to sausages, especially their lips, anuses, and ears.

Most Australians of voting age know there is a federal election due on 2019-05-18 (yes, I prefer the ISO 8601 notation). Most Australians of voting age are also familiar with the term “democracy sausage”. Today I’m sharing my take on the democracy sausage.

At election booths around the country, there is usually at least one barbecue (grill) set up which is managed by people who are seeking money for some sort of charitable reason. Often it’s for the local school parent and citizen (P&C) committee to do good works in the community.

It’s common to ask for a sausage (usually containing some ground meat of varying species (pork, beef, lamb, or chicken), sometimes meat-free) on a piece of white sandwich bread as a snack while queuing and waiting to vote. Butter on the bread is rare. Margarine is more common but not always available. Some places are fancy and offer grilled onions as well as an assortment of sauces like tomato and barbecue sauces as well as some mustards.

Given the recent Bunnings controversy, I wonder if there will be expectations of onions under the sausage.

Really fancy places, in the upmarket parts of town (not that Australia has a class system [yea, right]), may offer different varieties of sausage (aka snag), e.g., a Kransky sausage with some cheese and onion or a vegan tofu soy variation cooked on a separate hot plate that hasn’t been contaminated with the juices of any animal.

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I bought all the ingredients from Coles. Yummy Lummy is not sponsored by anyone.

Recipe

Yummy Lummy’s 2019 Australian Federal Election Democracy Sausage
Prep Time
10 mins
Cook Time
3 hrs
Faffing
15 mins
Total Time
3 hrs 10 mins
 
Yummy Lummy’s 2019 Australian Federal Election Democracy Sausage reflecting the influence that the Chinese are having of democratic processes around the world.
Course: Snack
Cuisine: Australian, Chinese
Keyword: Bao, Democracy sausage, Lup chong
Servings: 1 Human Macrophage
Calories: 500 kcal
Author: Gary
Ingredients
Bao Dough
  • cup H₂0
  • 4 tablespoons unsalted melted butter
  • 1 large egg
  • cups plain flour
  • 5 tablespoons sucrose
  • 1 tablespoon powdered milk
  • 3 teaspoons yeast I suggest not bodily thrush
The snag bit
  • Buy a packet of lup chong Chinese sausage from Coles
  • Spring onion
  • Hoi sin sauce
Instructions
Bao bread
  1. Place ingredients into bread pan, in the exact order listed in the recipe.
  2. Wipe spills from outside of bread pan.
  3. Insert the bread pan into position in the baking chamber and close the lid.
  4. Press ‘SELECT’ to access – DOUGH – BREAD setting.
  5. Press ‘START/PAUSE’ to commence operation.
  6. At the end of the setting, press ‘STOP’. Remove bread pan from the baking chamber and remove dough from the bread pan. The dough is now ready for hand shaping, rising and baking.
  7. Turn out the dough onto a lightly floured surface and knead for 1 minute by hand to a well-rounded form.
  8. Put baking paper onto a baking tray.
  9. Roll the dough onto a girthy 7 cm diameter log.
  10. Cut your log of dough into 6 equal bits.
  11. Put a disc of dough on a wooden surface (don’t use a cool surface because it will harden up your dough).
  12. With your palm of your hand, press down on and rotate your palm, so the dough spirals out from the centre.
  13. The dough will grow into a 7 cm diameter circle.  Don’t use any flour.
  14. Insert your sausage, some spring onion, and some Hoi sin sauce.
  15. Twenty minutes before baking, preheat your oven to 180 °C/350 °F.
  16. Brush your buns with an egg glaze. Sprinkle on some sesame seeds.

  17. Bake in the oven for 30 to 40 minutes, until tumescent and golden brown.
Plating up bit
  1. Put your freshly baked Yummy Lummy Democracy Sausage into a cloth bag and go out and vote.
Blogging bit
  1. Shoot a photograph and a short video because Google now wants video on recipe cards.
  2. Eat the meal.
  3. Wash the dishes (hint, wash as you cook, it makes life easier).
  4. Write the recipe.
  5. Write the blog post.
  6. Hit publish and hope this blog post gets shared on Twitter, Facebook, and Pinterest.

Recipe Video

Recipe Notes

Disclaimer

I have no culinary training nor qualifications. This post is not intended to convey any health or medical advice. If you have any health concerns about anything you read, please contact your registered medical practitioner. The quantities are indicative. Feel free to vary the quantities to suit your taste. I deliberately do not calculate energy for dishes. I deliberately default to 500 Calories or 500,000 calories because I do not make these calculations.

Photographs

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Questions and answers

What have the Chinese got to do with elections?

If you’ve been living under a rock, you may not be aware of the claims of some political aspirants suggesting there is undue influence from China. In addition, there are some Chinese-speaking enclaves which have been holding political debates in Mandarin rather than English.

In case it has escaped the reader’s attention, I’m Chinese. That is, I’m Australian, but four or so generations before me, the original family members on Mum’s side came out from China and sought the golden glory of the best colony in the emerging great southern land, viz., Queensland. On Dad’s side, basically from the same village as my Mum’s side, his parents sailed to Fiji to establish themselves as shop keepers.

As much as I like a nice big thick juicy pork sausage with some nice creamy sauce between a couple of flaps of bread, I thought I’d try a different spin on the democracy sausage. Not political spin, just my ethnic spin.

If the election is on 2019-05-18 why are you writing about Yummy Lummy’s democracy sausage now?

¿To proselytise the good news of the Chinese sausage in a bao dough bun so that the good citizens of Australia who are eligible to vote can have another option as they wait in line like sheep to comply with the legal obligation to have their name crossed off at an election polling centre. Then they have the option to enter a polling booth with a pencil and vote if they wish. They can also write a short essay on democracy or they can express themselves through drawing. Mind you, essays and drawings end up as invalid votes and will not be counted in the final poll.¿

How will Yummy Lummy vote?

That is a deeply personal question. Yummy Lummy stands above politics and religion. Suffice to say, Yummy Lummy will vote. Unlike like-minded democracies (you know, our allies the US, UK, and Canada), in Australia it is compulsory to have one’s name registered and then checked at a polling centre. As a minimum, Yummy Lummy will take that step and more than likely use the pencil on offer and make appropriate valid marks on the lower house ticket and then as is Yummy Lummy’s want, on the Senate ticket the order of marks will go up and down under the line because Yummy Lummy has very firm views and will happily make the person he dislikes the most the very last person to get an ordinal mark on the Senate ticket. Yummy Lummy will not be coerced by party preference deals, Yummy Lummy is his own person and makes his own decisions. Yummy Lummy enjoys the privilege of spending hours waiting on a Saturday exercising his right to vote.

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Final thoughts

  • Do you like a democracy sausage?
  • What’s your favourite sausage?
  • What do you think of Yummy Lummy’s Democracy Sausage?

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13 Responses

  1. What a brilliant idea, I love lup cheong and partnering this with peking duck flavours, rolled into a bun and baked is brilliant. I wish they would take up this idea at Bunnings.

  2. We don’t have anything as interesting as sausage stands at polling stations where I’ve ever voted. If you had a stand at your upcoming election, I think you would do quite well with your Democracy Sausage. 😀

  3. Very nice baking, Gaz. They look like Chinese baos or the Chinese sausage buns at the Chinese bakeries. I like a plain sausage on white bread with butter. Don’t mind some fried onions on top and a good slatering of tomato sauce and mustard.

  4. Love this idea – sausages at polling stations. There were local government elections in England and Wales this week and one trend is #dogsatpollingstations. No-one eats them as far as I know. I love sausages. I did try Kransky sausages when in Australia a few years ago, but though they were very salty. Might just have been the make. Your take on the democracy sausage looks amazing.

    1. Thanks Emma. Bringing one’s pet dog is also popular when voting. Because we vote on a Saturday it’s like an outing.
      I think in general, the Kransky is a salty sausage.
      At this election there will be a lot of sausage eaten.

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