Recipe - Bacon Mustard Crisps

7 sl Lean bacon
One half cup Water
One fourth cup Dijonstyle mustard
2 cup Allpurpose flour
One half teaspoon Salt
1 tablespoon Baking powder
1 teaspoon Freshly ground white pepper
6 tablespoon (Three fourths stick) cold butter; cut
into 6 pieces

Notes: From Orange County Register

Preliminaries: Place oven rack in middle position. Preheat oven to 450
degrees.

1. Cook bacon in large skillet until crisp. Place on paper towels to drain
and reserve 2 tablespoons of bacon drippings. Finely chop bacon.

2. In a food processor fitted with the metal blade, combine water, mustard
and 2 tablespoons bacon drippings. Process until just blended.

3. In a food processor fitted with the metal blade, combine flour, salt,
baking powder and white pepper. Process to combine. Add butter; pulse until
mixture resembles coarse meal. Add mustard mixture and pulse until just
blended. Add bacon and pulse one or two times, just enough to blend in
bacon.

4. Place mixture on lightly floured work surface. With a floured rolling
pin, roll dough to a 1/8inch thickness. Dip 2inch round cutter in flour
and press into dough. Place rounds on 2 ungreased baking sheets. Gather
scraps and roll out and continue to cut out as many rounds as possible.

5. Bake in preheated oven for 1012 minutes, or until golden. Transfer to
cooling racks.

Presentation: Serve with cheese and fruit.

Yield: about 80 crackers

Nutritional information (per cracker): 26 calories, 1.6 grams fat, 0.8 gram
saturated fat, 3 milligrams cholesterol, 70 milligrams sodium, 55 percent
calories from fat

Posted to recipeludigest by ncanty@juno.com (Nadia I Canty) on Mar 28,
1998