Party Food... Cheesy Feet
You will need:
(Makes 4)
* 25g (1oz of butter)
* 100g (4oz) of frozen puff pastry sheets, defrosted
* 1 egg
* 100g (4oz) grated cheese
* Tomato ketchup
What to do:
1. Make feet templates out of cardboard.
2. Preheat the oven to 200oC/400oF/Gas 6
3. Grease a large baking tray with the butter.
4. Sprinkle a little flour on a clean work surface and roll out the pastry.
5. Prick the pastry with a fork to stop it rising during baking.
6. Place the feet templates on the pastry and cut round them.
7. Place the feet on the baking tray.
8. Beat the egg with a fork and brush over the pastry.
9. Sprinkle the grated cheese on top.
10. You may like to decorate the toenails with a little tomato ketchup.
11. Bake for 10-15 mins. Cool on a wire tray.
Feet smell because animals, including humans, produce chemicals called pheromones that identify us as individuals. Feet smell bad when very tiny plants or animals grow on our skin. They are called microbes which means small life. They are everywhere. The microbes that make feet smell bad have very long names. One is called Brevibacteria-linen. Another is Corybacteria JK. Many microbes are members of those families and when they grow they're smelly.
We can wash some of them off. But microbes duplicate on and on, so we can't ever get rid of them. When something has been cleaned of all microbes, we say that it's sterile. But microbes always get back in eventually. Microbes are just about everywhere - at least on this planet. We are protected from most of the bad ones by our bodies' immune system.
The above recipes were based on ideas from Annabel Karmel’s Complete Party Planner Ebury Press ISBN 0-09-187526-9
