Gin-marinated strawberries with pistachio lime wafers

Ingredients

2 punnets	Strawberries (Main)
¼ cup	Sugar
1	Lime
1 cup	Gin

Pastachio lime wafers

50 g	Butter
2	Eggs
½ cup	Caster sugar
½ cup	Flour
1	Lime
¼ cup	Pistachio nuts

Directions

1. For the strawberries: Wash strawberries and hull. Place in a bowl. Sprinkle over sugar and 1 tablespoon of lime rind.
2. Pour over gin. marinate, covered for 30 minutes. Serve with pistachio lime wafers.
3. For the wafers: Melt butter and leave to cool. Beat 2 egg whites until stiff. Add sugar and beat well. Stir in butter until combined.
4. Sift flour and add to egg whites with 2 tsp lime rind and finely chopped pistachio nuts.
5. Place teaspoonfuls of mixture on a baking-paper lined oven tray and flatten with the back of a spoon to a 6cm diameter circle.
6. Bake at 160 degrees C for eight to 10 minutes or until light golden.