BAKING

Lemon + Rosemary = Refreshing

Paul Cezanne, (1839-1906)
Still Life with a Ginger Jar and Eggplants, 1893-1894.
Oil on Canvas
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Bequest of Stephen C. Clark, 1960.
French Post-Impressionist

After four trials, I finally came up with a rather refreshing, savory-sweet cookie. I’ve been having such wonderful results with buttermilk lately, I figured I might as well try it on cookies, since I use it all the time to make cakes. These cookies are ever so slightly crunchy and pillowy-soft in the middle, especially the bit right beneath the icing: the tart of the fresh lemon coupled with the subtle spice of the rosemary and the sweet of the icing creates this amazing palette cleansing effect. It really is a refreshing cookie.

Fearful that Tim and I would engulf every last one of the 24 cookies that stared back at me from the cooling racks, I immediately packaged up a bag for some friends of ours.

“Wait, what are you doing?” Tim asked.
“I’m giving these away so we don’t eat every last one of them ourselves,” I offered.
“Wait, let me try those. They sure look pretty,” he said as a quarter of the cookie disappeared.
“Wow, Karen! These are great, don’t give them away,” he pleaded.
“You really like them?” I automatically asked.
“I think you’re really starting to get the whole cookie thing down. I really do,” he said as he walked out of the kitchen. And just as I thought he was about to disappear, he popped right back from around the corner, and with that little smirk of his asked, “Oh, and by the way, did you use one of my lemons?”
“Yes, of course, I responded.”
“No wonder they turned out so well…”

Uh-Huh! Sassy!

LEMON ROSEMARY BUTTERMILK COOKIES

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Katsushika Hokusai, (1760-1849)
Weeping Cherry Tree and Bullfinch,
From the Series, Small Flowers, c. 1834.
Woodblock, chuban, 25.1 x 18.1cm
The British Museum, London.
Japanese Ukiyo-e Painter During the Edo Period.

January 5th, 2008 — 11:54 pm

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