Re: "Cheese straws"?

Nancy Young wrote:
> "Marcella Peek" <marcella@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote
>
>> "Nancy Young" <qwerty@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>>> phyllo, a couple three layers, sprinkle with whatever
>>> grated cheese and cayenne, then baked until crisp.
>
>> Nothing massively wrong. Usually they are made from puff pastry though
>> rather than phyllo dough. I think they'd still be tasty, just
>> different than the usual.
>>
>> We like a little black pepper too.
>
> Thank you to both you and Jill ... I have this phyllo been in my freezer,
> thought it might work for this. I just might try both with the phyllo and
> with the recipe, and with the pepper. Thanks both for the ideas.
>
> nancy
>
>
Phyllo doesn't lend itself well for cheese sticks...it crumbles to
readily. You'd need many layers of phylo before you'd be assured it
would work or you have to make each stick seperately (a real pain). Go
with the cheese stick dough recipe from jill.
.

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