Pine nut and rosemary cookies

Preparation info
  • Makes about

    3 dozen

    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
A Table in the Tarn: Living, Eating and Cooking in South-west France

By Orlando Murrin

Published 2008

  • About

These bite-size biscuits are unusual and sophisticated. One guest asked for the recipe because she said she wanted to try and wean her grandchildren on to proper, grown-up biscuits.

Ingredients

  • 2 tbsp pine nuts, toasted, plus 3 dozen extra for topping each cookie
  • 2 tsp finely chopped

Method

Toast the pine nuts: the easiest way is in a dry frying pan over medium-high heat, shaking the pan constantly. Pulse the rosemary and toasted pine nuts in a processor till ground. Transfer to a bowl and add the flour, bicarb, ginger and a pinch of salt.

Cream the butter and sugar until pale and fluffy, either by hand or in a mixer, and add the oil. Mix in the flour, then the cream, then