Croquants aux noisettes

Preparation info
  • [To make about

    18

    croquants]
    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
Mourjou: The Life and Food of an Auvergne Village

By Peter Graham

Published 1999

  • About

Fernande Faven, an accomplished cook who used to help out in the kitchen at three of Mourjou’s now defunct restaurants, gave me the recipe for these pleasingly crunchy hazelnut biscuits.

Fernande and her husband Paul have the most impeccable kitchen garden in Mourjou. It has a line of small fruit trees (greengage, peach, pear and quince) down one side, and is surrounded by a privet hedge as neatly clipped a