Garabaldi Search

 

Garibaldi search

No, not Giuseppi, the Italian revolutionary from the 1800s.

Over the years, I’ve been on the hunt for these fairly unexciting biscuitty cookies from my youth.

In fact, I was just in the grocery store yesterday when the thought occurred to me to try again. Up and down the cookie aisle I went, to no avail.

 And then lo and behold, there they were on Field and Fen  and I was inspired to try making them myself.

The ingredients are anything but exotic; you probably have them in your kitchen but be warned – Boud made it look easy-peasy.

Not so much in my hands.

I’m a pretty experienced baker; cookies, cakes, many a loaf of home-made bread (no, I don’t use a bread machine). But.

Yes, I chilled the dough well.

Yes, I floured the surface.

But I failed to achieve that perfect state between too crumbly and too wet.

Let’s just say, the British Baking Show won’t be pounding on my door anytime soon.

But they actually did taste just fine, and reminded me of those store-made cookies of long ago.

Still, in two days I’ll be welcoming the Amazon delivery guy once again.