Name: Vanilla, Orange or Lemon Thins
Ingredients: 1 large egg (size 1–2); 15 ml spoon (1 tablespoon) double cream; 275 g (10 oz) plain flour; 2.5 ml spoon (½ teaspoon) salt; 5 ml spoon (1 teaspoon) baking powder; the inside scraped from one vanilla pod; 225 g (8 oz) vanilla sugar; 225 g (8 oz) softened, slightly salted butter

Preparation info

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

The Cooking of the Mediterranean

By Jane Grigson

Published 1991

About

Make up this dough and keep it in the refrigerator or freezer. You can then cut off thin slices for baking, as required. Vanilla sugar is made by keeping a vanilla pod in a jar of sugar. Orange or lemon thins are flavoured with the grated rind of one fruit and a 15 ml spoon (1 tablespoon) of its juice instead.

Ingredients

225 g (8 oz) softened, slightly salted butter
225 g (8

Method

Mix all ingredients except the flavouring and extra sugar into a dough, then add whichever flavouring you like. Form into an even roll in a piece of greaseproof paper, and chill until it is firm enough to slice very thinly – about 1½ hours.

Line baking sheets with non-stick vegetable parchment and arrange the slices on them, with plenty of room for the thins to spread. Sprinkle over ext

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