Vol au vent cases

oh i love vol au vents

a quick google shows jus rol so them and sainsburys online and iceland popped up

I bought some from Morrisons a couple of weeks ago. Frozen.

I expect iceland would sell them.

we don’t have an Iceland or Morrisons near us but Im prepared to make a journey by bus/es if anyone can genuinely recommend any please?!
Then I will buy several packs !
A great way to use up little bits or chunks even of turkey, chicken, mushrooms, prawns whatever. Oooh I want one of
each, right now.
No party, wedding reception or wake was without these little
packages of squishy delight, which I hadn’t even thought of until my son was reminiscing.

We had pineapple and cheese on cocktail sticks with our Christmas buffet one year.

We talked ourselves into a frenzy of anticipation.

I’ve just googled ( because I love them too!) Amazon sell them!
Is there anything Amazon doesn’t sell?

My mother often made these - IIRC from scratch - when there was any sort of ‘do’.
Usually stuffed with some sort of mushroom thing - she was never keen on chicken ‘because it’s a bird’. 🤔. Not keen on ‘eggy’ eggs, either. She’s long gone but ‘eggy’ eggs are still something of a family joke.

Now Im also fantasising about Coq u vin with good wine and Black Forest Gateau with bitter cherries, both labour intensive, expensive, spectacular.
After the bland foods of my childhood, served up by a resentful housewife type parent, the magnificence of Seventies food was a revelation.
T bone steak! juicy burgers with relishes! Scampi and chips in a basket!
Avocado Pears! Chicken midweek! (occasionally) sweet potatoes!
these all once I had left home, of course, monotony ended.

There are still foods I will not eat, wouldn’t consider them,
does anyone else shudder at some of the awful foods we were fed?

except for Vesta Beef Curry and Chow Mein of course

I was fed quite lovely food, luckily. (Even though I was a first class whinger)

I haven't had these since a wedding more than 20 years ago.

I was literally trying to remember what they were called the other day!

Very happy about this thread, will buy

Looks like Sainsburys, Morrisons and Iceland sell Jus Rol cases while Asda, Waitrose and Aldi sell their own brand. You might need to buy online though as I guess not all stores will have them in stock.

I love vols au vent. I once worked in a restaurant where they were a staple and orders would come in for 'Two vollies wi' sotty tatties for table five' etc. We had chicken and mushroom ones - for the vegetarians!! Well it was fifty years ago..

I usually make vol au vents at Easter and Christmas. The Jus Rol cases are usually for sale at our local Tesco, but haven't seen them recently.

You might find them at Iceland or Asda.

We usually buy a Colmans cheese sauce and stuff with shrimps or prawns. They're delicious.

We bring ours from France - not that this helps you!

CountessFosco

We bring ours from France - not that this helps you!

we bought ready pastry too, in Carrefour, Auchan, Casino, much better as it was round and just fits, made with butter, until this was exchanged for palm oil, sadly.
Nowhere near us has vav cases either online or instore, I already checked before asking.
I have not seen them for years.
Of course, should I locate any, I will share info., start a run
on them, first stocking up of course.

I've never seen frozen ones here in Germany. They are just packed up, ready-baked. You fill them and pop the in the oven.

SOGran, a Vesta Paella was my treat for myself as a student, when I was marginally less stony broke than usual.

Saw some reindeer shaped (heads only but with antlers) vol-au-vent cases in Aldi yesterday. Looked very seasonal but I think they also had some ordinary shaped ones too, in the centre aisle bit.

I think the Amazon ones are expensive.

I have not thought of Vol au Vents for years, used to serve them warm with a béchamel, chicken or mushrooms or cold with a prawn mayonnaise, the children used to like then too. Next time I go shopping I am going to look out for them.

I use ready made puff pastry.

Take the sheet and cut it into squares. Then only half-way through the dough cut a smaller square inside each one.
OR
Cut out circles in the dough and then, using a smaller cutter, cut half-depth circles inside.
here's a sketch

Move them apart so they have space to puff in the oven. Once baked the "lids" easily pop off.

Obviously, stuff afterwards with chosen filling.

I bought the Jus-Roll vol-au-vent cases when we had a family party in the summer. I got them from Sainsbury's. They were a complete blast from the past. I made prawn fillings for one lot and mushroom filling for the other.

I had a friend, now sadly a much lamented late friend, who seemed to go to a lot of funerals and always judged them be the quality (or lack of) vol-au-vents served at the wake.