Cheese Straws
Ingredients:2/3 cup flour
40g mature/sharp hard Cheddar (or similar hard cheese) - finely grated
1 egg
5ml ready-made mustard
3 tbsp butter
salt
black pepper
Method:
Preheat oven to 350. Mix together flour, seasoning and butter until crumbly. Stir in cheese slowly. Lightly beat egg with mustard, then pour half of this mixture into the dry mixture. Stir/mix until it becomes dough-like. Roll out the dough until roughly 6 inch square and cut into 1.5cm strips. Put onto baking sheet and brush remaining egg mixture on top. Bake until brown - approx 12 minutes.
The book indicated you could add in other seasonings to taste, such as cayenne pepper. The consumers at the party indicated I should try chopping up some jalapeno peppers into the mix for added spice. I think these could easily be served with a number of different kinds of dips.Also, I cut mine into half size strips - so instead of 6inch straws which would yield about 10 straws, I created over 25. Remember, you can always gather up the extra chopped off bits and re-roll them out for more straws!
I was very happy with these and will definitely make them again!
