- 3/4 pound mushrooms, trimmed and quartered
- 1/4 pound shallots (about 3), minced
- 5 tablespoons unsalted butter
- 1/4 cup Worcestershire sauce
- 1/4 cup grated Cheddar
- 14 very thin slices firm white sandwich bread
- Garnish: 28 long fresh chives
- In a food processor mince mushrooms in 2 batches. In a 10-inch non-stick skillet cook shallots in 2 tablespoons butter over moderate heat, stirring, until golden. Add mushrooms with salt to taste and cook over moderate heat, stirring occasionally, until dark brown and very dry, about 15 minutes.
- Add Worcestershire sauce and simmer, stirring occasionally, until sauce is evaporated and mixture is very dry, about 5 minutes. Remove skillet from heat and stir in Cheddar. (Filling may be made 3 days ahead and chilled, covered.)
- Discard crusts from bread and with a rolling pin flatten each slice into a rectangle. In a small saucepan melt remaining 3 tablespoons butter.
- On a work surface arrange a bread slice with a long side facing you and mound a level tablespoon filling along long side. Roll up bread jelly-roll fashion. Arrange roll, seam side down, in a shallow baking pan. Make more rolls with remaining bread and filling in same manner, arranging in pan in one layer, touching each other, and keeping covered with plastic wrap.
- Brush mushroom rolls all over with melted butter and rearrange, seam sides down and barely touching, in pan. Chill mushrooms rolls, covered, at least 1 hour and up to 1 day.
- Preheat oven to 425°F.
- Bake mushroom rolls in upper third of oven 15 minutes, or until golden. Halve rolls crosswise and tie a chive around each half.