Herbfarm rosemary shortbread

36 Cookies

Ingredients

Quantity Ingredient
1½ cup Unsalted butter (3 sticks) at room temperature
⅔ cup Sugar
2 tablespoons Fresh rosemary or
2 teaspoons Dried rosemary
2¼ cup Unbleached all-purpose flour
½ cup White or brown rice flour
¼ teaspoon Salt
2 teaspoons Sugar for topping (opt'l.)

Directions

Line two baking sheets with parchment paper.

Cream butter in a large bowl until pale yellow and light. Add the sugar; continue mixing until the mixture is fluffy.

If you are using fresh rosemary, mince it. If you are using dried rosemary, crush it in a mortar and pestle, or by using a rolling pin on a flat surface, until it is fine but not a powder.

Add both flours, the salt and the rosemary to the butter mixture; mix until thoroughly combined. The dough will be somewhat soft.

Refrigerate it for 1 hour, if necessary, so that it is firm enough to roll.

Roll the dough out to form a rectangle about 10 x 14" and ¼" thick.

Cut cookies into 1½ x 2" rectangles or any other shape you like.

Place them about ½" apart on the prepared baking sheets. Sprinkle them with the sugar topping if desired; bake at 375 F. in the center of the oven until they are gold at the edges, 12 to 15 minutes.

Remove the cookies from the oven and transfer them to wire racks to cool. Pack in an airtight container. The cookies will keep, their flavor improving, for at least a week.

Note: The author says that these cookies are much better two days after they are baked, and suggests planning accordingly.

Recipe from Ron Zimmerman of The Herbfarm/Falls City, WA. In _Farm House Cookbook_ by Susan Herrmann Loomis. New York: Workman Publishing Company, Inc., 1991. Pp. 384-385. ISBN 0-89480-772-2.

Electronic format by Cathy Harned.

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