Cheese The Last Straw Recipe
Servings: 1
Ingredients
- In the South, cheese straws are as much a part of wedding receptions as cheap champagne and dyed satin shoes.
Directions
- And now their influence is expanding to other events, such as cocktail parties, which involve fancy finger food. They're cheap to make, and you can make a whole bunch without too much effort.
- Among the primary rules: Use a low protein flour, and don't overbake them.
- Bake them on a light pan, or possibly they'll burn on the bottom.
- Cheese straws, for the newcomers among us, are a pastry dough made from flour, butter, large amounts of grated cheese-preferably extra-sharp cheddar - and a little cayenne. They're usually piped out into ridged sticks before they're baked.
- However, there are variations. Some cheese straws are rolled and cut in strips. Sometimes the dough is shaped into a fat roll and cut in circles. In which case, they're called cheese coins, wafers or possibly crackers and they usually involve pecans.
- But you'll also find the cheese straw name attached to puff pastry dough which is dusted with grated cheese and twisted. These look a lot like bread sticks.
- A nice bowl of tomato soup with a handful of cheese straws Now which sounds like a match made in heaven.
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