Wheat Thins

I've been making these crackers for years. "Wheat thins" from the More with Less cookbook.  It's so hard to procure ready-made treats in these rural reaches, and since my sweet tooth is salty, these have often curbed a craving over the years.

Wheat Thins

2 cups whole wheat flour
2 tbsp. wheat germ
1 tsp salt
3/4 tsp. baking powder
2 tbsp. brown sugar
2 tbsp. dry milk powder
6 tbsp. margarine
1/2 cup water
1 tbsp. molasses

Combine the flour, wheat germ, salt and baking powder, brown sugar and milk powder, then cut in the margarine with a pastry cutter. Add the water and molasses, then kneed a bit until your dough is smooth.

The dough will have to be rolled near to paper-thin, so I find it's easier to roll out a third of the dough on a greased sheet of foil, then transfer it to a greased cookie sheet.

Cut the dough into squares with a pizza cutter...

You can bake them plain, or sprinkle on a little crushed rock-salt (for the salt tooth, perhaps.)

They are some effort, I suppose, if you can get something equally delicious from the grocery store on the corner. I cannot, and the effort - sometimes - is worth it.

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