Missing Xmas Recipe Plea - Pine Nut Rosemary Shortbread Recipe

[Guest guest]

Rebecca -

I really like this one. Perhaps reducing the sugar and rolling thinly?

Adding some red pepper flakes? I must say, 1 1/4 t. rosemary doesn't

sound like much. Maybe a tablespoon? AND the red pepper flakes.

 

I've become totally absorbed here. Still haven't tracked down the

Christmas pine needle pie crust however.

Chupa

 

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Pine Nut Rosemary Shortbread Recipe

2 cups white whole-wheat flour, (or unbleached all-purpose flour)

scant teaspoon fine-grain sea salt

1 cup unsalted butter, at room temperature

2/3 cup (natural cane) sugar

zest of one lemon

2/3 cup pine nuts, toasted and loosely chopped

1 1/4 teaspoons fresh rosemary, finely chopped

 

 

 

 

Combine flour and salt in a small bowl and whisk to combine.

In a separate large bowl or stand mixer cream the butter until light

and fluffy. Add the sugar and lemon zest and mix again, then add the

flour mixture, nuts, and rosemary and mix until the dough goes just

past the crumbly stage, and begins to really clump together (you

don't want to over mix it, but under mixing will make the dough seem

a bit dry, which can make it more difficult to handle). Turn the

dough out onto a floured work surface. Knead the dough just once or

twice to bring it together, then divide it into a ball and flatten

into a disk 1 inch thick. Wrap in plastic wrap and refrigerate for 15

minutes.

Preheat the oven to 350F degrees and line a baking sheet with

parchment paper of a Silpat mat. Roll the dough out to 1/4 inch

thickness on a lightly floured surface. Cut into whatever shapes you

desire, and place on the prepared baking sheet. Sometimes I chill the

dough in the freezer for another 10 minutes, it seems to help the

cookies hold their shape - but you don't have to. Bake for about 10

minutes, or until the cookies are beginning to brown on the bottom.

The baking time will vary depending on the size of the cookies,

taking less time for smaller cookies.

 

Makes about 2 dozen small cookies.

 

Variation: use chopped raw or toasted walnuts and 1 tablespoon

coarsely ground coffee in place of the lemon, pine nuts, and rosemary.

 

Source: http://www.101cookbooks.com/archives/print/pine-nut-rosemary-

shortbread-recipe.html

Formatted by Chupa Babi: 12.19.07

 

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" Innes, Rebecca " <Rebecca.Innes wrote:called " Vegetarian Good

LOST the recipe and I wondered if anyone had anything like it..

Especially if anyone had any recipes for rosemary pastry (we used to

> call it pine needle pastry in the spirit of Christmas)..

Thanks in advance for help!>

> Rebecca (Edinburgh, Scotland, UK)