darjeeling cookies

Darjeeling Cookies
makes about 4 dozen

2 cups flour
the contents of 4 Darjeeling tea bags
1/2 tsp salt
3/4 cup butter
1/4 cup margarine
1/2 cup sugar
1 tsp orange zest
4 tbsp orange juice

Mix flour, tea and salt together. Set aside.
Cream together butter, margarine, sugar, zest and juice in a mixer. Gradually add in the flour mixture.
Freeze or cool the dough for about an hour. *It will be very dry. This is to give the cookie a very crumbly texture. If you wish to do so, add moisture, like juice, water, or milk, right before this stage.*
Preheat oven to 350 F.
Roll out to 1/4 in thickness and use a cookie cutter to cut cookies.
Place on a non-greased cookie sheet.
Bake about 12 min.
(Recipe altered from Martha Stewart's "Early Grey Tea Cookies" in holiday cookies 2005. I hate the woman, but, man, can she make cookies!)

So, why make these cookies? Bored on a Sunday night, of course. I also made guacamole earlier in the day, but since Hope had my camera from the Friday night party (which was... indifferent, although Hilary A, Peter and Kieran are the funniest drunks, and I had never before seen Eirelyn and Abby high), I was unable to take photographs of it before it all disappeared. Oh well. Someday.
Well, off to make some kind of dessert for tonight. (I really don't feel like doing French or filling out scholarship applications, although I should be doing only that.)