Nick Malgieri

Alumettes au Fromage

Cheese Matchsticks

Preparation info
  • Makes

    48

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    • Difficulty

      Easy

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By Nick Malgieri

Published 2000

  • About

This is a traditional and tasty French recipe adapted from that great sourcebook of French pastry, the Traité de Pâtisserie Moderne (“Treatise on Modern Pastry Making”), by Darenne and Duval.

Ingredients

  • 2¼ cups all-purpose flour
  • 1 teaspoon salt
  • 10 tablespoons

Method

  1. In the work bowl of a food processor fitted with the steel blade, pulse the flour and salt together to mix.
  2. Add the butter and pulse three or four times until it is reduced to pea-sized pieces. Add the cheeses and pulse twice more.
  3. Add the milk and pulse repeatedly until the mixture forms a ball.
  4. Scrape the dough out of the work bowl onto a