Cheese Rusks

250g SR flour
milk to mix
125g butter
125g grated matured cheese
pinch salt
good shake of cayenne
1t mustard

Method: Sift flour, salt, cayenne and mustard. Rub in butter and cheese. Mix to scone dough consistency with milk. Turn onto floured board and knead. Roll into 1&1/2cm thickness and cut into oblong 7.5cm long x 2-2.5cm wide. Place on oven slide and bake at 220 degrees C gas oven until just browned. Remove tray from oven and with 2 forks split through scones as though to butter them. Return to oven, split side up and dry out and brown gently in gas oven 150-160 degrees C. Serve buttered with a dip or topped with savouries.

N.B. If well dried out and crisp, they will keep for a long time in an airtight tin.

Source: Festive Fair: Christmas Menus (Adelaide: South Australian Gas Company, 'From the Home Service Department'; n.d. [early 1980s?]), p.51.