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Special Cheese and Walnut Sticks

These crusty mini-baguetttes are generously dotted with diced Comté cheese, toasted walnuts and fried bacon bits.

They are ideal for slicing and serving as an aperitif snack.

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Last modified on: October 24^th 2017

Keywords for this recipe:Bread Bakery Comté cheese Nuts Bacon Franche-comté region Aperitif

For 4 sticks, you will need:

1 200 g Comté cheese
2 200 g small pieces of bacon
3 2 tablespoons vinegar
4 200 g walnut kernels
5 600 g bread dough
6 salt
7 pepper
Total weight: 1,230 grams

Change these quantities to make: 2 sticks 4 sticks 8 sticks 12 sticks

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Preparation	Resting	Cooking	Start to finish
14 min.	2 hours 50 min.	47 min.	3 hours 51 min.

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Step by step recipe

Stage 1 - 5 min.

Special Cheese and Walnut Sticks : Photo of step #1

Cut 200 g Comté cheese into small dice and set aside.

Stage 2 - 7 min.

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Fry 200 g small pieces of bacon, add 2 tablespoons vinegar at the end of cooking and set aside.

Stage 3 - 15 min.

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Toast 200 g walnut kernels for 15 minutes in the oven at 360°F (180°C).

Stage 4 - 4 min.

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You can rub the walnuts in a teatowel when they come out of the oven to help remove the skins, but this is not essential.

Stage 5 - 2 min.

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Mix the walnuts, bacon and Comté together.

Stage 6 - 3 min.

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Mix these into 600 g bread dough. The simplest way is to knead with a food processor on slow speed.

Note: For the best way to knead, see: A few tips for effective kneading at home.

Stage 7 - 1 hour 30 min.

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Gather the dough into a ball, transfer to a large, clean bowl and cover with a plastic sheet. Leave to rest for 1 hour 30 minutes.

Stage 8 - 20 min.

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After this, weigh out the dough into lumps of about 300 g and shape into balls.

Leave to rest for 20 minutes covered with a plastic sheet.

Stage 9 - 1 hour

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Next, roll the balls out into long sticks and lay in a baguette mould or tin.

Leave to rest for 1 hour, covered with a plastic sheet as before.

Stage 10 - 25 min.

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Bake for about 20 to 30 minutes at 250°C (480°F) until the mini-baguettes are golden brown.

Note: As when baking any bread, you should ensure that the oven is filled with steam for the first 15 minutes of baking. This page shows you how; it really is the secret of golden-brown, crusty loaves..

Stage 11

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Served sliced as an aperitif snack, for example, success is guaranteed!

Remarks

If you do not have any Comté, try and use a similar kind of cheese, such as Gruyère or Emmental.

You will notice that the added goodies amount to nearly as much as the bread dough itself. This may seem a lot, but it is the secret that puts the "special" in a special bread.

Keeping

Several days wrapped in a cloth. Freezes very well.

Nutritional information

Whole recipe
Energetic value	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats
3,348 Kcal or 14,017 Kj	156 gr	425 gr	306 gr
167 %	60 %	40 %	46 %

Per 100 g
Energetic value	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats
272 Kcal or 1,139 Kj	13 gr	35 gr	25 gr
14 %	5 %	3 %	4 %

Per stick
Energetic value	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats
837 Kcal or 3,504 Kj	39 gr	106 gr	77 gr
42 %	15 %	10 %	12 %

% are calculated relative to a Recommended Dietary Intake or RDI of 2000 k-calories or 8400 k-joules by day for a woman (change to a man).

How much will it cost?

For 4 sticks : 9.85 €
Per stick : 2.46 €

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Note : These prices are only approximate.

Source

Home made.

This recipe uses (among others)

	Bread dough: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Special Parmesan baguettes, Baker's pizza, Surprise bread, Spring Bread, Baker's chicken and potato tart, ... All
	Walnut kernels: You can check-out other recipes which use it, like for example: Moist cereal bars, Chocolate thins with toasted nuts, Endive and walnut salad, Pears and caramelised walnut samosas , Granola, ... All
	Comté cheese: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Involtinis, Potato gratin, Deep leek and potato quiche, Triple-Cheese Pumpkin Gratin, Montlebon toast, ... All
	Small pieces of bacon: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Baby spinach salad, Truffade, African style chicken, Green beans with tomatoes, How to cook bacon and remove excess fat, ... All

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