CJC@psuvm.BITNET (10/03/85)
The price of crackers has gone up around here again, and I'm not sure
they're worth it any more. Does anyone have a good recipe for crackers?
- or rather recipes, I like cheese or whole wheat or seeded or a few others
but not all together.
--Carolyn J. Clark
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keith@gargoyle.UUCP (Keith Waclena) (10/06/85)
In article <3676CJC@psuvm> CJC@psuvm.BITNET writes: > >... Does anyone have a good recipe for crackers? ... I like cheese ... > From _The English Biscuit and Cookie Book_ by Sonia Allison, New York: St. Martin's Press, 1983, a very good book including sections on shortbreads and savory biscuits (read "crackers"). Recommended. This recipe makes a huge quantity; it's really a basic recipe for four different crackers. The cheese straws are just one. ============================================================ Cheese Straws 3 cups all-purpose flour 1 teaspoon salt 1/4 teaspoon white pepper 1 teaspoon dry mustard 1/2 level teaspoon paprika 1 cup butter or margarine 2 cups Cheddar cheese, finely shredded 2 egg yolks from medium eggs cold water Basic recipe. Sift dry ingredients into a bowl. Rub in the butter/margarine until finely blended. Add the cheese. Mix to a stiff (but not too crumbly) dough with egg yolks and a little water, using a fork to gather the ingredients together. Turn onto a floured surface and knead lightly until smooth. Wrap in foil or plastic wrap and refrigerate for 1 hour. Unwrap and divide the pastry into 4 equal portions. Cheese Straws proper. Roll out one portion of party thinly. Cut into 36 to 48 strips, 3 inches in length. Arrange strips carefully on lightly greased cookie sheets. Re-roll the pastry trimmings and cut into 2inch rings with cookie cutters. Place on the sheets. Bake until pale gold, allowing about 7 to 10 minutes in an oven preheated to 450 degrees F (230 degrees C). Remove carefully to wire racks and leave to cool. To serve, thread the straws through the rings to look like bales of hay. Store in an airtight tin. ============================================================ Use the remaining portions to make more straws, or cut into simple rounds and bake similarly, or make sandwiches with Cheese Cream: Cheese Cream 3/8 cup butter, softened 1/2 cup Cheddar cheese, very finely shredded salt pepper 1/2 teaspoon prepared mustard Beat together ingredients. -- Keith -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Keith Waclena uucp: ..!ihnp4!gargoyle!keith Graduate Library School CSNet: keith@UChicago.CSNet University of Chicago Bitnet: kdw1%sphinx@uchicago.bitnet