Allumettes (Pastry Straws for Hors-d'Œuvre)
Origin: Paris, France
Source: Auguste Escoffier, 1907
Ingredients
- half-puff pastry
- fish forcemeat
- Cayenne
Instructions
- Cut the half-puff pastry, or the puff pastry trimmings, into rectangles 7 centimètres long, 2 1/2 centimètres wide and 7 to 8 millimètres thick.
- Season the fish forcemeat up with Cayenne and mask the rectangles with a light coating of it.
- Bake in a slow oven.
- Name the allumettes according to the forcemeat used.