Family liked. Fried maple-flavored mild sausage before sprinkling onto the dough. Added 1 extra TBSP of milk to the recipe, which made rolling the dough much easier. I wonder how Gail got 48 swirls from the recipe because I ended up with 16 3-inch rolls. What we didn't eat, I froze (hopefully it will not affect the taste when thawed and heated).

This was pretty good, but I agree with leaving out cornmeal. I kinda made this a quicker recipe by using canned biscuits and rolling them together and cooking the sausage before rolling. Then I rolled it up and put it in the oven. This version was incredible with the flaky biscuits. This really is a great recipe (minus the cornmeal), I just needed something a little faster.

Over all pretty good! Due to recommendations by others i left out the cornmeal from the dough and sprinkled in a very thin layer of cheese over the sausage.

Wonderful!

One word to describe this recipe. D.R.Y. Dry. Which is too bad because it has potential to be quite tasty. You can't really cut the baking time down because then you're looking at undercooked sausage which wouldn't be good. I agree with previous reviewer Susanna that the cornmeal isn't all that great, it gave the swirls a gritty texture without contributing much to the flavor. I think that a more tender biscuit dough would make the swirls much nicer, maybe even just a batch of Bisquick. My husband tried the swirls and said "tastes good but needs something, maybe cheese" so maybe a cheese biscuit dough would be good. One tip I would suggest if you make this is to let your sausage sit out so it isn't refrigerator cold when you try to distribute it over the dough, it will be easier to spread evenly with your fingertips.

This recipe should not be attempted by beginner cooks. The dough was difficult to roll into rectangles and kept splitting. As well, it was very hard to slice the chilled rolls for baking. That being said, although I had my doubts while making them, the Sausage Swirls were very tasty and a great addition to our Easter brunch. I will leave out the corn meal next time as I think that is why the dough was difficult to handle and I think it made the finished product a little dry.

Used these as an appetizer for Christmas lunch. Everyone enjoyed them and asked for the recipe. And, they were pretty on the platter. I thought they were very good, but a tad bit dry. That's why I choose 4 stars instead of 5. However, since everyone else enjoyed them so much, I will make them again.