Cheese Straws

Paula Deen’s views on butter are the things of which legends are made.

This receipe is no different, here are her cheese straws.

I bought self-rising flour just of this.

I do not own a sifter because it only does one thing. And Alton Brown says that’s silly. So I use a sieve.

I also bought the largest block of cheddar cheese I could find. It had to be cut in half before I used the food processor to shred it.

When she says “cream the cheese and butter” all I thought about was cookies. I also thought that this was going to take a while. I’m glad Persimmon was up to the challenge.

Then you had to coax the flour fix in. It has salt and cayenne pepper in it.

Now, there is the part where I deviated. I piped them out on a parchment lined backing sheet but I didn’t have a pastry tip large enough to handle this kind of constancy. So they came out not so much cheese straws, but cheese lumps.

But the plate was pretty.