Ostkökur

Cheese cakes

I found the recipe for these cheese cookies in an old Icelandic cookbook from the 1940s, and both my children and my mother really liked the cheese cakes. I should have baked more!

PS: I baked the cookies again - this time with herb salt in the dough and sprinkled a little over the cookies before baking, which gives the whole thing a more intense note.


Ingredients

250 g wholemeal flour
1 tsp coarse sea salt
250 g margarine
200 g spicy cheese
1 - 2 Tbsp water


Preparation

Sprinkle the flour and salt into a bowl and add the margarine.

Grate the cheese, keeping a little of the grated cheese aside and adding the rest to the flour and margarine mixture.

Add the water and knead everything into a smooth dough. Form “sausages” out of the dough and let them set in the fridge for about half an hour.

Then cut the "sausages" into slices about 0.5 cm thick, place the biscuits on a baking tray lined with baking paper with a little space between them, sprinkle with the remaining cheese...

...and bake each tray at 350 °F (180 °C) upper and lower heat for about 15 minutes until the cheesecakes have turned nice and golden brown.

[Translated from here.]