Ingredients. - Two ounces of butter. Two ounces of flour. Two ounces of grated Parmesan cheese. One ounce of Cheddar cheese. One egg. Salt, and Cayenne pepper.

Time required, about twenty minutes.

To make Cheese Straws:

1. Put two ounces of flour on a board, and mix into it half a salt-spoonful of salt and a quarter of a salt-spoonful of Cayenne pepper.

2. Take two ounces of Parmesan cheese and one ounce of Cheddar or some strong cheese, and grate them on a grater.

3. Rub the cheese and two ounces of butter into the flour.

4. Now mix all the ingredients, together with the yolk of an egg, into a smooth, stiff paste.

5. Flour the board and the rolling-pin, and roll out the paste into a strip one-eighth of an inch in thickness and five inches wide (the length the cheese straws are to be).

6. Now take a sharp knife, dip it in flour, and cut the paste into strips one-eighth of an inch wide, so that they will be five inches long and one-eighth of an inch in thickness.

7. Take two round cutters, dip them in flour, and cut little rings of paste.

8. Take a baking-sheet and grease it with butter.

9. Put the cheese straws and the rings on the baking-sheet, and put them into a hot oven (the heat should rise to 240°) for ten minutes.

10. Look at the cheese straws occasionally, and see that they do not burn; they should be of a pale-brown color when done.

11. For serving, take the cheese straws off the baking-sheet, and put them through the rings of paste, like a bundle of sticks.