m. 11 tamarind-ginger cookies

recently we have been making a lot of dan lepard's recipes from the pages of the guardian, our new love affair started with his amazing mustard seed and onion rolls and ever since then we have stuck with his off-beat baking, so when we saw the recipe for these:

we wasted no time to start creaming the sugar, but in this case we were creaming sugar, butter and TAMARIND! of phat thai fame, the tamarind remained together in bits during the creaming and this gave each cookie a little burst of citrus, they were just simple gingery goodness!