I have something spectacularly simple and yet very elegant to share with you today.
These little gems are quite old fashioned, coming from a recipe that's been around a very long time. (1933) I have a series of cookery books in my home library, called The Farmer's Wife cookbooks. I have the Baking one, the Comfort Foods one, and one simply entitled The Farmer's Wife. There are quite a few others as well, but I haven't managed to collect them just yet.
These are lovely ring bound cookery books, just stogged full of tried and trues, family and farm tested recipes, based on simple, wholesome and nourishing ingredients.
It's simple food. Honest food. Old fashioned and delicious.
I have wanted to make these little sweet biscuits for a long time now. From the Farmer's Wife Comfort Food Cookbook (over 300 blue-ribbon recipes), they use every day ingredients . . . round buttery crackers, egg whites, jam, chopped nuts. They're very easy to make and in less than 15 minutes, you can have a delicious little sweet on your teatime table that is not only pretty, but quite, quite delicious.
Each bite is at once buttery and crisp, from the cracker base and ethereally angelically sweet from the soft jam meringue topping, with the added pleasure of chopped toasted nuts. I quite like these. The combinations are endless . . . raspberry jam with almonds, marmelade with walnuts, strawberry jam with pistachios, apricots jam with almonds, etc. . . . let your imagination and fancy go wild!
*Jam Marguerites*
Makes about 20
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