Cheesy Cheese Straws

Method

• step 1

  Preheat the oven to 200 degrees centigrade / 400 degrees fahrenheit / Gas mark 6.

• step 2

  Rub the wholemeal flour, plain flour and butter untill you have crumbs. Add the egg yolk, cheese and musterd powder. Mix, then kneed into a ball.

• step 3

  put some flour on your work surface and roll out the dough to approximately 5mm thick.

• step 4

  Cut the pastry into straw sizes about 1 and a half cm wide and 15 cm long. Brush them with the beat egg white and sprinkle each straw with either the poppy seeds or the seseme seeds.

• step 5

  Using a fish slice, put each straw onto a lightly greased oven tray. Bake for about 10 minutes, until lightly golden.

• step 6

  Once cooked put them immeidietly on a wire rack to cool.