Cheese and Almond Crisps

For most Parsis of my generation, cheese generally means processed cheddar, the kind that for many years was imported in blue tins from Australia and is now replicated in India. Anything with a cheese flavor attracts Parsis like ants to sugar. Cheese straws, cheese biscuits, little cheese-flavored crackers, cheese sandwiches, all of these are popular nibbles before or between meals. These buttery cheese crisps are a nostalgic evocation of the addictive cheese oat biscuits from Bombay