LAVENDER BISCUITS.

I love the lavender bush, the lavender flower, flavour and aroma. Some years ago, I introduced lavender sugar to the required list of ingredients for the 'country' cooking class where we prepared these biscuits. We made our own lavender sugar .....Place 20 lavender blossoms in a medium sized jar and fill with castor sugar, stir through the blossoms. Cover with a lid and leave for 14 days, shaking the jar every couple of days. Ingredients.......125 gm of butter / marg, 175 gm of plain floiur, 75 gm of lavender sugar, 1 tsp of dried lavender, chopped, 1 tsp of vanilla extract, 50 gm of dark chocolate, melted. Preheat your oven to 200 deg C. Line a baking tray with baking paper. Rub the butter / marg into the flour until it resembles fine breadcrumbs. Add the lavender sugar, dried , chopped lavender, vanilla extract and knead to a smooth dough. Roll out thinly on a lightly floured surface and cut into rounds with a biscuit cutter. place on the prepared baking tray. Bake in the preheated oven for 12 minutes or until golden. Cool on the tray for 2 minutes then transfer to a wire rack to cool completely. Finally drizzle with the melted chocolate. Share and enjoy. If you like and enjoy the flavour and aroma of rosemary, you can prepare rosemary biscuits easily by replacing rosemary flowers and rosemary for the lavender in the recipe above.