It was all about Clover flowers today in the kitchen. I knew I was going to try out clover tea and what goes better with tea than cookies! Let’s get started with the tea.
Add 4 cups of water to a pot, bring it to a simmer.
Add one bag of black tea, I used English Breakfast. When the water simmers, remove the bag when it reaches a boil. Now, I tried about 6 different teas and this one was by far the best, take my word for it.
After you remove the tea bag add about a cup of clover flowers only, no leaves or stems for this one. Also add about 6 large mint leaves, sliced into thick ribbons. Let this mixture steep for 10 minutes.
Pour the mixture through a fine sieve into a pitcher and add about 3 cups of ice. Did I mention this was iced tea? While that comes down in temp lets get the cookies started.
I used about 1/4 cup of clover flowers, separating the flower tops.
Make your favorite shortbread cookie dough adding the clover flowers and about 1/4 cup of honey.
I placed the dough into a bag a smoothed it out for you to see how pretty the flowers were in the dough. Into the fridge to chill for two hours it went!
These came out beautiful! A nice smooth cookie with pretty purple flecks of clover running throughout. They tasted sweet from the honey and a bit like earthy springtime!
To finish off the iced tea I decided to rim the glass with a fresh mint sugar.
In a food processor add 3/4 cup of white sugar,
1/2 cup of mint leaves from the pick your own herb garden,
let it go for a bit and you have a fragrant and beautiful mint sugar. This can be sprinkled on fresh fruit also!
Enjoy!