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I'm Stephanie Barnett and on behalf of Expert Village, I'm here to show you what to bring
to your next office Christmas party, something savory and something sweet. So here's my dough,
it did come together, it takes about five minutes for that dough to come together so
don't be discouraged, it does come together. And you might have little bits and pieces
that aren't clinging together but don't add more water, it will just make your cheese
straws soggy and they won't be delightful. So now you want to kneed your dough. What
we're doing, is you're just, see how we're just trying to get it all smooth and together.
Even though it's a bit crumbly, you just add those pieces back in and we're not kneeding
it for long, just five or six times to get it really incorporated. So I'm just going to smash that down a bit,
I kind of want to make a rectangular shape. Then you're going to to take some wax paper,
two sheets, and you're going to put the dough in between them and we want to roll this out
into a rectangle if possible. Now I know when you're rolling, it's hard to make a perfect
rectangle but you can cut and piece it together as you go. So I'm going to pick that up, I
have big lumps here, big lumps there, it's okay, just roll it out, you're looking for
a uniform thickness of about a quarter of an inch. But first you have to get it sort
of into that rectangular shape. Right now mine is a blob, but it will become a rectangle.
Okay, and you want to lift up that wax paper, you want to flip it and lift up that wax paper,
okay. So as I'm doing this, it's coming out the end, so I'm going to show you a trick.
You take a knife, you cut that and you add it on to another area and you can do the same
thing to get that rectangular shape. You can cut off uneven pieces, patch them in and see
how I'm starting to make that rectangular shape? And if you just roll, put some pressure
on that, roll it in and it will just incorporate into the rest of your piece. Now if it really
starts coming out the ends, take it out of the wax paper and flip it.