The Persevering Cook's Kitchen

Recipe: Cheesy Butter Thin Crackers

This is an alteration of Homemade Thin Butter Crackers 1 by Jennifer Meier

Bake: 10 minutes at 400 F.

Ingredients:
Dry:
2 1/4 cups whole spelt flour
1/4 cup wheat gluten
2 tbsp sugar
2 tsp of salt (if using duck fat or unsalted butter, 1 tsp if using salted butter)

Fat:
1/2 cup duck fat or unsalted butter or salted butter

Liquid:
2/3 cup of water

Flavour:
1 cup of finely grated cheese (assumed to be salted)

For rolling:
More flour

Instructions:
1. Add all dry ingredients to the food processor and start the machine running.
2. Add fat a little at a time until bully incorporated.
3. Add liquid slowly and blend until a ball forms. (Stop to scrape sides as needed)
4. Divide the dough into 8 pieces and cover pieces not being worked with a damp tea towel. NOTE: you can wrap and freeze some or all of the balls for later use. Make sure the dough is fully thawed before using it.
5. On a floured surface with a floured rolling pin:
- roll out the dough
- sprinkle the center third of it lightly with cheese
- fold the dough over towards the center in thirds in both directions
- repeat this two more times
- roll very thin, the thinner you can manage the better
6. Cut into crackers (I like tiny ones that are about 2 cm by 1 cm).
7. Transfer to a baking sheet and bake.
8. Cool on a rack.
9. Store in an airtight container.

Footnotes
1  Meier, Jennifer. Homemade Thin Butter Crackers. Spruce Eats. Accessed 2022-12-12. https://www.thespruceeats.com/butter-thins-homemade-cracker-591345