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