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(With my convection oven, I baked at 425☏).

2 tablespoons chilled butter, cut into small pieces.

2 turns black pepper from a peppermill plus more for sprinkling.

Who needs store-bought? I’m a convert to homemade. In fact, next time, I’ll add even more cracked pepper. The crackers would have been too mellow without the kick from the salt crystals and the spicy bite of the pepper. I do recommend the salt and pepper combination, though.

While I was inspired to recreate the salt and pepper combination, it should also work well with an herb or cheese topping. My second batch of crackers was nice and flat and cooled to room temperature, they were perfectly crisp. I also scored the dough to get more uniform pieces instead of irregular shaped ones. Additionally, my first batch, though tasty, puffed up on the borders so I pierced the surface of the dough with a fork to prevent this from happening again. It helps to achieve the crispness that one would expect from a cracker.

The key is to roll out the dough paper thin. Even better, the crackers baked right on the same pan. The dough adhered enough to the sheet pan to keep it from springing back too much while rolling it. It worked very nicely since my first attempt made hard work of rolling to paper-thinness an elastic dough. I took pointers from reading America’s Test Kitchen’s version and rolled the dough on an inverted baking sheet. A few simple ingredients, a little bit of kneading and rolling out the dough made for some great crackers. I didn’t realize how easy crackers are to make. Ultimately, I combined the technique of one, some of the ingredients of another and threw in my ideas for making them better…at least the latter was my hope. I consulted a few recipes for my maiden cracker voyage. Surely there is a reason they command such a premium price? On the other, I was apprehensive about potentially failing at something that seemed so simple. On one hand, I was excited at the prospect of making something that, one year ago, I would never have thought to try. I’ve had my mind on homemade crackers all week. They were simply seasoned with salt and cracked pepper but at $6.00 for a mini package, I was motivated to make my own. The dressed-up hummus earned the praise of our friends but my husband and I were especially pleased with the crackers we purchased. Of course, I couldn’t help myself I doctored up the hummus as a compromise for not serving my usual homemade version. Some wine, cheese, olives, salami, hummus and crackers would have to do. There was no time for homemade appetizers. In preparation for a last minute get-together with friends last week, my husband and I dashed to our neighborhood grocery store for a whirlwind shopping trip.