Suzanne Valadon  -  La Tireuse de cartes, 1912  (detail) 

French, 1865-1938 

Evening Dress

Gustave Beer

c.1912-1913

Ancient Greek fashions

Portrait of Princess Polina Shcherbatova, 1911, Valentin Serov

William Etty (1787-1849) “Male Nude, with Arms Up-Stretched” (1828) Oil on board Located in the York Gallery, York, England

LAVENDER-ROSEMARY-LEMON SHORTBREAD

These little cookies may not look like much, but they’re seriously some of the best ones I ever had. Improvised the recipe but here goes:

Ingredients

- 4,5 dl / 2 cups flour - 200 g dairyfree butter/margarine/other veggie fat - 0,5 dl / 0,25 cups white sugar - 0,5 dl / 0,25 cups unrefined sugar - Zest from organic lemon - Dried lavender - Dried rosemary - A little maple syrup

Instructions

Mix all ingredients except the syrup in a food processor until it’s one big lump of dough.

Roll the dough to a cylinder shape (see pics), cover in plastic and let it rest in the fridge for half an hour.

Turn on the oven to 175 degrees C.

Cut the dough cylinder into 0,5 cm thick discs (well obv you can make them whatever shape you like). Spread them out evenly on a baking tray with some space in between.

Brush the cookies with a little syrup, sprinkle some rosemary on them, and bake in the middle of the oven for like… 8 minutes (keep an eye on them, it’ll differ depending on the oven etc).