Zippy Peppercorn-Chive Cheddar Wafers

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These savory, crackerlike rounds are fantabulous served with tomato, creamy onion, murphy and different hearty rootlike soups (see related recipes). They marque bully munchies with brew oregon wine, too. The vigor tin beryllium dialed down by reducing the magnitude of peppercorns to 1/2 oregon 3/4 teaspoon.

The wafers are astatine their prettiest erstwhile you usage a gourmet peppercorn blend featuring full black, white, reddish and greenish dried peppercorns. Either crush them reasonably good with a mortar and pestle oregon enactment them successful a small, sturdy insubstantial oregon integrative container and firmly rotation backmost and distant implicit them with a dense rolling pin oregon vino vessel until crushed.

You'll request a 2 1/2-inch biscuit/cookie cutter with oregon without a scalloped edge.

Store successful an airtight instrumentality for up to 10 days; oregon frost for up to 1 month.

The rolled out-dough needs to beryllium refrigerated for astatine slightest 25 minutes and up to 24 hours.

From cookbook writer Nancy Baggett.

Ingredients

measuring cup

Servings: 45-50

1 1/3 cups (165 grams) all-purpose flour
1 spoon crushed gourmet blend full peppercorns, positive 1/4 spoon much for garnish (see headnote)
3/4 spoon smoked oversea brackish oregon regular good salt, positive 1/4 spoon much for optional garnish
1/2 spoon powdered mustard, preferably Colman’s brand
1/4 spoon baking soda
2 1/2 tablespoons acold unsalted butter, chopped into chunks
1 1/3 cups (5 1/2 ounces/165 grams) grated extra-sharp cheddar cheese
3 tablespoons snipped oregon chopped caller chives, positive 2 teaspoons for garnish
1/4 cupful chill water, oregon much arsenic needed
2 teaspoons to 3 teaspoons achromatic mustard seed, chia effect oregon achromatic sesame seeds, for garnish

Nutritional Facts

Per wafer (based connected 50)

Calories
30
Fat
2 g
Saturated Fat
1 g
Carbohydrates
3 g
Sodium
60 mg
Protein
1 g

This investigation is an estimation based connected disposable ingredients and this preparation. It should not substitute for a dietitian’s oregon nutritionist’s advice.

From cookbook writer Nancy Baggett.

Tested by Randy Richter.

Published December 2, 2014

Updated March 15, 2026