Behold!
The Rosemary Lemon Shortbread Cookie
You’ll need:
2 cups flour
1tsp sea salt
1 cup of unsalted butter (room temperature)
2/3 cup of sugar
zest of one lemon — Please find something nice to do with the rest of this lemon, there’s nothing half so glum looking as a lemon without it’s skin.
1/2 cup of finely chopped walnuts –If you want to pulverize them, that’s fine too.
3tbs finely chopped fresh rosemary — I love cooking and baking with fresh rosemary, it’s somewhat like cooking or baking with a tiny spruce tree and we all know how I dearly love spruce trees…
To do:
Whisk flour and salt together in a medium bowl. In a separate bowl cream the butter until light and fluffy. Add the sugar and lemon zest and mix again. Add the flour mixture, nuts and rosemary and mix until combined.
Turn the dough out on to a lightly floured surface and shape the two discs, wrap in waxed paper (What’s the American term for this stuff??? It’s on the tip of my tongue…) and chill for an hour or so. The cooler this dough is, the easier it is to handle. Roll the dough out to 1/4 inch thick and use a cookie cutter to cut various shapes from the dough.
Put these cookie cuttings on a cookie sheet and bake at 350F for 10-12 minutes or until their little bottoms begin to brown. Cool on the cookie sheet for 5 minutes before transferring these gems to a wire rack for complete cooling.
Jillian Notes:
1. When it comes to shortbread, DO NOT skimp on the butter. There will be regrets.
2. Frankly, I like my shortbread thicker than a 1/4 inch so I roll to 3/4 of an inch thick before cutting.
3. If you play it straight when it comes to cookies, a simple round shortbread cut out will suffice but I like eating star cookies. I get to chomp off the arms of the star, one by one, and then at the end it’s rather satisfying to pop the star heart in my mouth. It’s the sweetest way to torture a cookie.
4. Lastly, have you ever eaten a frozen shortbread cookie? Well it’s delightful and refreshing, as cookies go and since it’s summer, it might be one of the best ways to eat these little beauties.
While I whack away at business this morning I’m taking two of these dandy little cookies with a glass of flowering tea. I’m so refined, I’m like a brick of gold.
Bottoms up, sweet bluebirds!
And happy first day of summer to you of the Northern hemisphere!
Pop into a frock, put some flowers in your hair
and love the light!
xx
PLUME
PS And WHERE oh WHERE will you watch the sunset from this evening?
Those sound delish! Next time I'm at my parents I'll have to abscond with a branch or two off their rosemary bush 🙂
~Happy Summer to you too~
Oh how I love to abscond…
Ah, no sunsets to gaze at here – only the clouds. But at least there were interesting clouds to see today, not just rain, rain, rain.
These cookies sound utterly divine and I think I will make them when my husband returns, weeks from now.
Is wax paper also called parchment paper?
Happy Summer!
I think I will make your cookies tonight, I've been in the baking mood.
Oh no! Weeks from now…..stay strong sister. I feel that lonesomeness. Maybe make these cookies NOW, for yourself. 🙂
Tracy! YES! THAT'S IT!
Thank you.
🙂
how perfectly refined!
wishing i had a chilled cookie earlier after playing with the dog in the sunshine.
the clouds have rolled in
and if they choose to part by this evening, i'll be watching the latest sunset of the year in central Illinois (setting over the thigh-high cornrows) 🙂
-L
This I can do, I think…I like stars much better than any other forms, even hearts…and first day of summer already..omg, I am thrilled! Thank you for the recipe!
xoxo
Yum yum! And I love those blooming teas — I used to sell lots of them when I worked at the cafe <3
I think I'll have to try these cookies out as well — my rosemary plant would love some more attention!
After a very full last day here traipsing through Hyde Park, visiting the childhood home of Vanessa Bell and Virginia Woolf, perusing the vast collections at the Victoria and Albert Museum, and checking out Harrod's, we are enjoying late evening and it's impending sunset in London. Tomorrow we go on to Paris. Upon our return home I will have to try the rosemary shortbread cookies. And THEN go through detox after all this travel eating! Happy solstice to you!
I miss the big yellow ball dearly.. Only grey, grey, grey here in the Emerald City. I have a feeling that these cookies will help to chase those clouds away!
Thanks for another batch of yummy!
Yesterday was the summer solstice. I wasnt at home but had I been I probably would have been watching the crowds go off to stonehenge, I live just down the road. If you ever come to the UK I advise you see stonehenge and perhaps see in the longest day. Theres a lot of colourful characters to watch.
I am not usually a baker but these seem irresistible. I think I will try them out.
We went swimming at the public pool today for the first day of summer. My children thoroughly enjoyed it and my youngest(5yo) got over some of his fear of the water and I got over some of my fear of being seen in public with a bathing suit on. What a lovely day it was!
cool and rainy here in alaska.
** happy summer solstice **
me too.
LOVE cutting cookies into star shapes.
for the very same reason.
[even cut the pooches' cookies into fun shapes but the concept of *how* to go about eating the cookies totally escapes them….]
shall bake some up this weekend!
thank you for the recipe….
these cookies look yummy..love the star shape
oh,by the way..waxed paper is called the same in the US ..parcement is different..not waxed..not as thin and pliant but can still be used to keep things from sticking.
Those cookies look so yummy! Happy summer to you!
Health and happiness,
Angela
Yummy!! I laughed when you said you like to make stars so that you can bite their little arms off – that is exactly what I love to do most…will make some tomorrow. In the meantime, I will watch the sunset from beautiful Sedona, AZ tonight with wonderful friends and a loving husband:O)
I can't wait to try this recipe!
Love rosemary also as a wonderful, friendly, fragrantly stroke-able houseplant.
X
D
Those cookies are PHENOMENAL. Really, truly.
Thanks for sharing!
Those cookies are PHENOMENAL. Really, truly.
Thanks for sharing!
Those cookies are PHENOMENAL. Really, truly.
Thanks for sharing!
YOU ALREADY MADE A BATCH??!!!?!?!?!!!!!!!!!!
holy
crow.
🙂
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Thanks so much, loverly ladytons, for these delightful notes! Sending you cat whiskers, pansies and baby grapes today!
xx
J
okay, not to be demanding, but can you make these for me when i come visit? i will repay you in sass.
i was visiting my Mother when i read this entry, i saw your flowering cup of tea, I exclaimed how lovely it would be to have some at that moment. My Mother walked over to her cupboard of mystery's and pulled out a little tea pot, with flowering tea a friend had given her as a gift. My wish came true, it was divine. thank you for sharing
Oh my goodness…what a combination. two beautiful tastes from the garden…I'm going to have to try these…
and star shaped?…YES!
Umm.
yUMM.
I was the kid who stole the frozen Christmas cookies from the freezer…Yeah. Frozen shortbreads are amazing! Though I do feel the urge to hide under the stairs to munch… 😉
Thanks for the share.
xo
Andrea