cheese straws???

bigpaws23

I add an egg or just the yolk to my 'dough' - this makes it more manageable and makes very lovely cheese straws that aren't too dry.

It's an old Mrs.Beeton's recipe. I don't have it to hand, but can find it if you are interested.

Bigpaws x

tr3mor

I saw a recipe for cheese flapjacks on here. Looked good.

Pink.

Hi overlykeensaver,

We have an older thread with some cheese straw recipes so I've merged your thread with it to keep all the replies together.

Pink

spiddy100

DH and DS1 (aged 2.5) made these for our breakfast over the weekend, they were lovely, very soft and cheesy!

Cheesy Snakes

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150g SR flour
1/2 tsp salt
25g margarine
75g cheese, grated
1 egg + 2 tbsp milk beaten together
Handful raisins

Preheat oven to GM6/200c/400f

1. Sift flour and salt. rub in the margarine
2. Reserve a handful of cheese, stir the rest into the flour
3. Reserve one tablespoon of egg mixture, stir the rest into the flour and mix to make a dough
4. Roll out the dough to about 1cm thick
5. Cut wide strips (about 2cm) from the dough, shape into wiggly snake shapes
6. Brush the shapes with reserved egg mixture and decorate with reserved cheese. Add raisins for eyes.
7. Put shapes onto a greased baking sheet and bake for 8-10 minutes until golden

overlykeensaver

thanks for all the recipes and tips. The cheese straws I made had an egg in them but no milk so maybe the milk will make give them a softer consistency. I will try these out at the weekends.

Spiddy100 - how many straws does your recipe make?

spiddy100

Oops sorry, it made about 10. Not entirely sure as we also cut some star shapes etc out of the dough with cookie cutters.

I've made cheese straws using plain flour before and using the SR flour definitely made them nicer in my book.

AMIE399

JAMIEDODGER....... if i had known that you were doing all that yummy cooking i would have popped round for taisters !!!!!!!!

Bella79

ive got a bit of left over pasrtry and some cheese how do u turn these into cheese straws ? , Im trying not to throw away food

twentypenceoff

ooh that makes me want some, i got some lovely unusual ones the other day, they had a line of mustard down the inside and were delicious.

rosieben

Here's a few recipes I've never tried the puff pastry ones but they sound good