Cheese Straws

Ingredients

• six ounces flour
• two tablespoons cream
• three ounces grated Parmesan
• four ounces butter
• half a level teaspoon salt
• quarter salt-spoon each pepper
• as much cayenne as can be taken up on the point of a very small penknife blade

Method

1. 1

   Sift flour on the pastry-board, make a well in the center; add cream, cheese, butter, salt, pepper, nutmeg, and cayenne.

2. 2

   Mix to a firm paste, knead, roll out to 1/8 inch thick, cut into straws about 8 inches long and 1/4 inch wide.

3. 3

   Lay on a buttered tin and bake until light straw color in a moderate oven.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The new practical housekeeping (1890) by Estelle Woods Wilcox, page 108. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Cheese Straws. — Sift six ounces flour on the pastry-board, make a hole or well in the center ; into this well put two tablespoons cream, three ounces grated Parmesan, or any rich drv cheese, fbur ounces butter, half a level teaspoon salt, quarter salt-spoon each CHEESE. 133 pepper and grated nutmeg, together with as much cayenne as can be taken up on the point of a very small penknife blade

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