I bought a used cookbook for my mom from her family’s hometown and saw a recipe (top of page) that includes “1 roll snappy cheese” I can’t even imagine what this might be. Thoughts?!?
Source: The Hunt Country Cookbook Warrenton Antiquarian Society, Warrenton, VA (1963/1964)
by Geoevangelist
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These are like cheese straws, but rolled and cut instead of pressed. Will taste like Cheez-its, but better.
Snappy cheese will be any beer cheese or sharp cheese if you don’t like the taste of beer.
If I was looking at a Southern recipe, that would refer to is a product Kraft stopped making (the traitors). But I’m not sure, cause I’m from as far as you can get in the continental US🤣.
They were wee rolls of garlic or jalapeño or bacon processed cheese.
https://www.deepsouthdish.com/2009/11/kraft-garlic-cheese-roll-substitute.html
Honestly I’d just sub in good pepper jack and cheddar. I’m fairly sure the rolls used to be 6 oz?
Ok, so there’s the last one, cheese wafers. What are ‘rice flakes’? Google says something about brewing?
Snappy is likely a Kentucky beer cheese, see https://howardscreek.com/the-history-of-beer-cheese/#:~:text=%22Snappy%20Cheese%22%20is%20what%20Kentucky,Kentucky%2C%20over%2085%20years%20ago. This recipe replicates, yet starts with a grated hard cheese, adding cayenne https://pudgefactor.com/crunchy-cheese-wafers/
Both stories are worth a read.
I’d like to know what a rice flake is!!
Another modern name for them might be Cheese Pennies. I fine them easier to make by rolling into a log, partially freezing, then slicing into coins like slice & bake cookies. Less finicky than rolling out.
I’m thinking the cheese that used to come in a plastic tube like pork sausage with a valve so you can squeeze it onto crackers.
I know it’s a little off topic, but cheese straws are unbeatable 🤤
Hey Mrs Sam Adams is in there.
I’d like to know what non-processed yellow cheese is.
If it’s what I think it’s, Kraft has processed the hell out of it.