Lavender, his bushy hedges blows a scent in the winter sun, is one of my favorite herbs. It is tough smells wonderful, cleans the air of viruses and repels insects. All of those things and you can bake with it! I wanted through my recipe books yesterday on the lookout for something new in the cookie bake try line, and saw a recipe for Lavender Heart Cookies. Every time I looked through the book, it always fascinated me, but I'd never tried itprior to burn like the idea of using lavender in seemed a bit bizarre ... interesting, but probably getting results of the "yuk Mom, what are these bits?
However, in the spirit of culinary adventure, I thought I'd run too. The ingredients were minimal - butter, sugar, flour and flowers! Lavender flowers. So off we went to pick the lavender. There was not much required, just two tablespoons of fresh flowers (the little purple flower bits from the main stem), so I had a nice moment therapeuticselecting the best stalks from my lavender hedge, which is still producing new flowers despite it being the middle of winter here. Then came the mixing all the ingredients together into a crumbly dough, which is more crumb than dough, but eventually did all work together. After its rest in the fridge, I tentatively rolled out the dough, still crumbling madly, but it was eventually persuaded to stay together by an insistent rolling pin. I churlishly refused my youngest daughter’s offers of Help in cutting from the heart ... mean of me, I know, but it was not my discovery, this time!
They came out of the oven, fragrant and golden. The moment of reckoning closer. Children, new scent pads, gathered around him. The girls hid uncritically, turned my son, the conservative connoisseurs away, but changed his mind in order to appreciate the sounds around him. A cautious nibbling, and he was convinced - I was not trying to poison them ...!
Here is the> Recipe in case you would be a culinary adventure as well!
Lavender Heart Cookies
115g/4oz butter
90ml / 6 tablespoons powdered sugar
175g/6oz flour
2 tablespoons fresh lavender flowers
Cream together the butter and 60ml / 4 tablespoons sugar until light and fluffy. Stir in the flour and lavender and you made it to work, kneading with your hands until it comes together into a soft ball of dough. Cover with plastic wrap and cold in the fridge15 minutes. Roll out lightly on a floured surface. Stamp the cookie with a heart-shaped cutter (either single-fluted) edges round cookie cutter. Power over 18 years with a 5cm/2inch cutter. Place carefully on a lightly greased baking sheet and with the remaining sugar on the top of each form. Bake at 200C/400F for about 10 minutes until golden. Leave the cookies on the tray for 5 minutes before it on a cooling rack.
So my experiment was deemed a success. The adults and laterEvening, also liked. Elizabethan''''beat my sister-in-law, and "packaged in a pretty box, they would make a great gift '. I must admit that here, since the choice of a chocolate biscuit or a lavender one, the children would unanimously vote for chocolate, but the fact that they are edible as they even if they knew they flower, which is pretty high praise for this recipe. I was the one who finished the secret it out of the next morning with my tea. The fragrantTaste on the palate, clean and yet sweet, was irresistible!
Copyright 2006 Kit Heathcock
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