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Cheese Straws

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Cheese and pepper are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 18% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 7,861 recipes. Both carry 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells earthy, pea. The science ↓

Cheese Straws

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Roll puff pastry scraps thin and sprinkle with grated cheese and cayenne pepper if desired.

  2. Fold the pastry, roll it out, and sprinkle with cheese again. Repeat this process.

  3. Place the rolled pastry on ice to harden.

  4. Once cold, roll into a rectangular shape, ⅛ inch thick.

  5. Place on a baking pan and cut into strips 4 to 5 inches long and less than ¼ inch wide using a pastry cutter dipped in hot water.

  6. Bake until golden and serve.

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.

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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. Cheese + peppertop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together7,861 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

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