Cardamom Cookies & Pomegranate - Cucumber Raita

I was kind of busy and am posting for a couple of events at the last moment.
Here are cardamom -  flavored cookies, which tasted like butter cookies we used to eat in India and our family favorite, pomegranate - cucumber raita.

Cardamom Cookies:



These cookies are based on vanilla hearts from Emma Patmore's 'Cookshelf baking'.

Variation:
I made some jumbo cookies instead of shaping them into small sized hearts, used cardamom powder for flavoring and added milk to form the dough.
The cookies were a shade darker since I was distracted in between.

Ingredients for about 5 jumbo cookies:
1 cup flour
1/3 cup butter, cut into small pieces
1/4 cup superfine sugar
1 tsp cardamom powder
4 Tbsp milk or as required

* Sift the flour into a mixing bowl and rub in the butter with fingers until the mixture is well combined.
* Stir in the sugar, milk and cardamom powder and bring the mixture together to make firm dough.
* Roll out the dough to about 1 inch thickness and cut out into desired shapes using a cookie cutter.
* Arrange them on a greased cookie sheet and bake them in a preheated oven at 350 deg F.
* Bake them for about 20 - 25 minutes or until they attain a light golden color. Flip the cookies halfway through the baking process.

This goes to 'Baking from a Book' - Cookies event hosted by
Champa.

Pomegranate - Cucumber Raita:
I am reposting this for Siri's 'Healing foods' event, which is being hosted at Apu's this month, with the theme Pomegranate.



Recipe can be found here.

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