Lady Grey Citrus Shortbread

Shortbread is the ideal canvas for Lady Grey because its plain, buttery richness gives the bergamot and citrus room to sing. Finely ground tea leaves are worked straight into the dough, releasing their aroma as the cookies bake and speckling them with pretty flecks.

Adding fresh orange and lemon zest alongside the tea doubles down on the citrus character, turning a simple biscuit into something genuinely perfumed. The result is delicate and grown-up—sweet, but never cloying.

The trick to good shortbread is to handle the dough as little as possible and to keep the butter cold, which gives that signature sandy, melt-in-the-mouth crumb. A short rest in the fridge before baking keeps the cookies from spreading.

Serve these with—what else—a cup of Lady Grey for a lovely echo effect, or alongside coffee for guests. They keep beautifully in a tin for a week, growing slightly more fragrant as the tea continues to perfume them.