Whole Wheat Cracked Peppercorn and Olive Oil Crackers
Rolling whole wheat crackers directly on silicon baking sheet
The prices for a box of great crackers is pretty steep, but you don’t have to eat that cost to make a great foundation for cheese or smoked salmon – just make your own.
It is actually very easy and fast to produce your own crackers at home, in fact you’d probably be able to get them done and cooling before you’d have been able to fetch them in a trip to your local grocery store. Like any baking and cooking you also gain the advantage of being able to tailor the recipe to your taste.
This process is extra easy if you roll the crackers right out onto silicon baking sheets – then after scoring them you can slip them onto baking sheets.
So easy and yet so good – you’ll really impress yourself with these so go ahead and make some.
- 4 cups whole wheat flour
- 2 tsp salt
- 4 tsp cracked black pepper more or less according to your taste
- 6 tbsp olive oil
- 1 cup warm water
- Preheat oven to 450F
- Mix all the dry ingredients together - you can taste the mix to get an idea of the level of peppery bite.
- Form a depression in the center of the dry ingredients and add the water and olive oil
- Mix all of the ingredients. Add additional water as necessary until the dough just comes together - you don't want it falling apart but it definitely shouldn't be sticky
- Kneed it for five to 10 minutes until it is smooth
- Divide the dough into four pieces and roll out each piece to about 1/8" thick preferably on silicon baking sheets but otherwise on baking sheets (you may have to invert these in order to use the rolling pin easily) Score the crackers so that once baked and cooled they will break easily along these predefined lines.
- Bake for between 10 and 15 minutes
- Allow to cool and then brake along the scored lines. Store in ziplock bags.