Flaky, Buttery Crackers

Name: Flaky, Buttery Crackers
Yield: makes 4 pans of crackers
Ingredients: 1 1/4 cups (5.5 oz / 156 g) all-purpose flour; 1 cup (4.5 oz / 128 g) cake flour; 1 teaspoon (0.25 oz / 7 g) salt, or 1 1/2 teaspoons coarse kosher salt; 1 tablespoon (0.5 oz / 14 g) sugar; 3/4 teaspoon (0.18 oz / 5.25 g) baking powder; 1/2 teaspoon (0.13 oz / 3.5 g) garlic powder; 10 tablespoons (5 oz / 142 g) melted unsalted butter or vegetable oil, plus 4 tablespoons (2 oz / 57 g) melted unsalted butter for garnishing (optional); 1 egg (1.75 oz / 50 g); 6 tablespoons (3 oz / 85 g) cold milk (any kind); Egg wash (see page 135)

December 14, 2011

This recipe makes a home-baked cracker similar to the famous, wonderfully buttery tasting Ritz brand crackers. Recipe tester Pamela Schmidt, who worked long and hard on this one, determined that a little garlic powder in the dough made these taste even more like Ritz crackers. I don’t know if Ritz actually puts garlic powder in their version, but it does add a nice flavor, so I’m going with Pamela on this one.

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