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Cheese straws are baked strips of dough made with flour, butter, bread crumbs, cheese, and milk.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Butter and bread are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 27,232 recipes. Both carry delta-decalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Home Recipe of Cheese Straws

Oven, in the book's wordsA moderate oven

Ingredients

Directions

The book says “a moderate oven”. The 350°F (175°C) in the steps is the modern equivalent, not the book's own figure.

Prepare the dough

  1. Preheat the oven to 350°F (175°C).

  2. In a bowl, mix flour, salt, and pepper.

  3. Chop in the butter until well combined.

  4. Add bread crumbs and grated cheese, mixing thoroughly.

  5. Gradually add milk to form a smooth dough.

  6. Knead the dough until smooth.

Shape and bake

  1. Roll out the dough to ½ inch thick and cut into strips.

  2. Place the strips on a buttered baking sheet.

  3. Bake for 10 minutes or until light brown.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.

Explore the science

The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Butter + breadtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,232 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-decalactone (sweet, creamy).

  2. Butter + milktop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together81,283 recipes

    Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).

  3. Bread + cheesetop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,130 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-decalactone (sweet, creamy).

  4. Butter + cheesetop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together7,962 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).

  5. Cheese + milktop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,426 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).

Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs

What each ingredient does

Flour
Forms the structure of the dough that holds the straws together.
Butter
Adds fat that makes the dough tender and rich as it bakes.
Grated cheese
Adds savory flavor and fat, and helps the straws brown as they bake.
Bread crumbs
Absorbs moisture and adds body to the dough, giving a crisper texture.
Milk
Hydrates the flour so the dough comes together and becomes smooth.

The step that matters

Adding the milk gradually. Flour absorbs liquid at its own pace, so adding milk slowly lets you stop once the dough is smooth. Too much liquid at once makes it sticky and hard to shape, and it can toughen the straws.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.

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