Pecan Blue Cheese Crackers

Title:
Pecan Blue Cheese Crackers

Yield:
1 Servings

Categories:
Cooking




Ingredients:





 1 1/2 c  Pecan halves


     1 lg Egg


     1    Stick unsalted butter;


          -softened


   1/2 lb Saga blue cheese; softened


     1 c  All purpose flour






 In a preheated 350 degree oven toast 1/2 cup pecans, about 7 minutes, and


 cool. Finely chop toasted pecans and separate egg. In a bowl with a fork


 cream butter and Saga until smooth. Add egg yolk, stirring until combined


 well. Add flour and chopped pecans and stir until mixture just forms a


 dough.


 


 Halve dough and on separate sheets of waxed paper form each half into a 12


 by 1 1/4-inch log, using waxed paper as a guide. Freeze logs, wrapped in


 waxed paper, just until firm, about 30 minutes.


 


 Preheat oven to 375 degrees and lightly grease 2 large baking sheets.


 


 Cut logs crosswise into 1/4-inch thick slices and arrange slices about


 1/2-inch apart on baking sheets. Top each cracker with a remaining pecan


 half, pressing lightly into dough. Brush tops of crackers, including


 pecans, with lightly beaten egg white. Bake crackers in batches, if


 necessary, in upper and lower thirds of oven, switching position of sheets


 halfway through baking, until golden brown, about 12 minutes total. With a


 spatula transfer crackers to paper towels to blot and transfer to a rack to


 cool. Yield: about 90 crackers


 


 Notes: Recipe courtesy of Gourmet Magazine


 


 Recipe by: Cooking live Show #9023


 


 Posted to MC-Recipe Digest V1 #967 by "Angele and Jon Freeman"


 
on Dec 19, 1997