Pastry for Cheese Straws

Ingredients

• six ounces of flour
• four of butter
• three of grated cheese
• a dust only of salt
• cayenne pepper as may be liked
• two yolks of egg

Method

1. 1

   Rub the butter into the flour, add the egg, and mix in the pepper.

2. 2

   Press out into a strip a quarter of an inch thick and four inches wide.

3. 3

   Cut strips the size of a straw and lay them on a buttered baking sheet.

4. 4

   Bake in a slow oven until pale fawn colour and crisp.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Mrs. Roundell's Practical cookery book (1898) by Roundell, Charles Mrs, page 316. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Pastry for Cheese Straws. — Take six ounces of flour, four of butter, three of grated cheese, a dust only of salt, cayenne pepper as may be liked, and for the above quantities two yolks of egg

Cook this with the app: pantry check, scaling, and the assistant.