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Stilton Oat Crackers

Prep Time 35 minutes
Cook Time 15 minutes
Total Time 50 minutes
Servings 6

Ingredients
  

  • 2 1/4 cups rolled oats uncooked
  • 2 tsp salt
  • 35 (1.2 oz) g Stilton crumbled
  • 2 tbsp unsalted butter
  • 1/2 cup buttermilk
  • 1/4 cup + 1 tbsp honey divided
  • 2 tsp Dijon mustard
  • 4 sprigs fresh rosemary needles removed

Instructions
 

  • Place the oats in a food processor and blitz for 15 seconds. Transfer the oats to a large bowl and whisk in the salt. Add the butter and the Stilton. Using a pastry cutter, cut the butter and cheese into the oats until the mixture resembles coarse meal. Set aside.
  • Pour the buttermilk into a small saucepan. Add 1 tbsp of the honey and the Dijon mustard. Place the saucepan over medium-low heat and bring the milk to a very low simmer, stirring constantly. Remove the mixture from the heat once steam starts to form on the surface of the buttermilk. 
  • Pour the warm buttermilk mixture over the oat mixture and stir to combine. Once a thick shaggy dough forms, turn the dough onto a floured surface and knead until the dough become cohesive.
  • Roll the dough out to a 1/4 of an inch thick. Using a 2-1/2 inch cookie cutter, cut out as many crackers as you can manage. Transfer the crackers to a baking sheet lined with parchment paper or a silicone baking mat. Form the dough back into a ball and roll it out once again. Cut out more crackers and repeat these steps until you get 12-14 crackers. Try to move quickly, the dough becomes less workable the longer it sits.
  • Using a toothpick or a small round piping tip, create a small hole at the top of each cracker. Transfer the crackers to the fridge and chill for 30 minutes. While the crackers are chilling, preheat the oven to 375°F.
  • Bake the crackers for 15 minutes or until crisp and brown around the edges. Remove the crackers from the oven and immediately brush them with the remaining honey. Press the rosemary needles into the honeyed surface and sprinkle the crackers with a little kosher salt. Transfer the crackers to a cooling rack and let cool completely.
  • At this point, you can simply serve the crackers on a plate. But if you'd like to make them into place settings, reinforce the holes you made on each cracker with a toothpick. Set aside. 
  • Take a stack of large bay leaves and write the name of each of your quests on the leaves using a non-toxic gold marker. 
  • Thread some butcher's twine through the hole of one cracker, then make a small hole, using a toothpick, near the stem of the bay leaf. Thread the butcher's twine through that hole as well. Take another cracker and thread the butcher's twine through it. The sequence should be a cracker, followed by a bay leaf, followed by a cracker. 
  • Tie a knot at the top of the crackers and trim the twine. Set the finished place cards on the salad plates or pasta coupes on your holiday table.