Baked Ficelles with Gruyere

Name: Baked Ficelles with Gruyere
Yield: Serves 6
Cuisine: Australian
Ingredients: cayenne pepper; 6 ficelles; 200 g (6½ oz) prosciutto (Parma ham) or Bayonne ham, sliced; 100 g (3½ oz) butter; 1 mild white onion, finely sliced; finely ground black pepper; 1¾ cups (405 g/13 oz) Gruyère cheese, sliced

Preparation info

Serves
6

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Fine Family Cooking

By Tony Bilson

Published 1994

About

Gruyère is a cheese made from unpasteurised cow milk with ‘eyes’ or holes scattered throughout and a recognisably sweet taste. It cooks beautifully. Ficelles are the string-like miniature loaves of French bread.

Ingredients

6 ficelles
100 g (3½ oz) butter
200

Oceania
Australia
cheese

Method

Slit the ficelles lengthwise along the top without separating the two sides. Butter them and lay the prosciutto (Parma ham) along the centre of the slit. Place some of the onion on top of the ham and add the Gruyère. Season with black pepper and cayenne pepper and bake in a hot oven (200°C/390°F) for