Cheese sticks

My mother cooked these cheese sticks at the special request of the
pope, who was very fond of them. I add a little cayenne pepper to the
dough, because I like everything sharp. You can form a cookie, you do
not have to make sticks.

2 cups of flour
2 cups of grated cheese (better spiked)
150 g of margarine
1 tsp baking powder
1/4 tsp. red hot pepper
1/2 tsp. salt
1/2 cup water

Preheat the oven to 200 ° C. Grease the baking tray with fat or lay
out with baking paper.

Mix the flour, baking powder, hot pepper, salt, grated cheese and
butter or margarine in a bowl and mix until smooth. Add the water in
small portions to get a very steep dough.

On a lightly sprinkled surface, roll the pieces of dough into bundles
a little more than a pencil thick. Slice the strands into pieces 12-15
cm long. Put these pieces on a baking sheet.

Bake at 200 C for 5 minutes or until the sticks are golden.