lavender-chamomile shortbread, chai shortbread?

[nacht_musik]

For the record, initial evidence suggests that starting with the Cook's Illustrated recipe for shortbread, and adding 2T each of finely chopped dried lavender and finely ground chamomile, is delicious.

Also, chai-spice shortbread also seems to be a win, though as I made it up on the fly I can't report exact spice proportions. (Maybe something like: 1T fresh-ground cardamom, 2t cinnamon, 1t ginger, 1/8t white pepper, and a dash each of garam masala, nutmeg, and fresh-ground cloves?)

For my future reference:

• Stop mixing the dough as soon as it looks like damp crumbs, and before it abruptly lumps into a single giant mass
• It spreads out a bit, maybe 1/2" - 3/4" all around.
• I used Arrowhead Mills brand organic white rice flour. This brand may be insufficiently milled; the shortbread seems to have the slightest bit of a ... raw-rice crunchy-bits problem.

Comments

[chaiya.livejournal.com]

Oooh. I think I require physical proof. Are there any leftovers? ;)

[nacht_musik]

It only just now came out of the oven... so, yes. :-)

[eccentrific.livejournal.com]

That seems to be a problem with rice flour. The texture is pretty far off from wheat. Most other flours work better.