Cheese Wheat Crackers ~ Montessori Books on Sale at Amazon

What's Cookin'?

Cheese Wheat Crackers:

I could give you a recipe but I would rather give you an approach :).  Take your favorite biscuit recipe, leave out any leavening, add a big handful of shredded cheddar (or your favorite hard cheese), roll out between parchment paper, score with a pizza cutter into squares, and bake uncovered on the parchment paper!  Ta-da!

Details:

~ I use a soaked wheat recipe for biscuits using all white whole wheat.  I only made a 1/2 batch of the biscuit recipe (without the leavening)  and then only 1/2 of that fit on my bigger flat pan at a time - so it was 2 batches of crackers for a 1/2 batch of biscuit dough (Jelly roll pan??  Why on Earth are they called that, anyway?).  It was basically one stick of softened butter, 2 cups of flour, 1 cup of cultured buttermilk, and salt to taste.  I left this to soak all day.

~  With my oven I had to bake them about 15 minutes and then I flipped them over for another 10-15 minutes so they would cook evenly on both sides.

~  I like my crackers on the crispy side so I then turned off the oven and left all of the crackers in it overnight since some were still a little bready.  As it turns out all 3 dc told me the next day that they prefer soft crackers - good thing they weren't as snap-crisp as *I* like them :).

~  For snack I drained about 1/2 C of homemade yogurt in a jar covered with unbleached muslin for about an hour or so.  Then I just scraped out the soft cream cheese from the muslin "strainer" and added salt for a cracker spread.  Dc had crackers, cream cheese spread, and orange for morning snack.

What's Schoolin'?

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