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Traditional Scottish Shortbread Recipe

Ingredients

How to make it

  • Preheat oven to 160c/325f/gas 3
  • Cream the butter and sugar until almost white and gradually add the flour;
  • Squeeze the whole mixture into a large ball;
  • Remove from the bowl and dust in the rice flour;
  • Press into an 8inch square tin and smooth and make pinpricks all over;
  • Bake in the preheated oven for 25 minutes;
  • Remove, dust with caster sugar and cut into 12 fingers;
  • Cool for 15 minutes in the tin;
  • Place on a rack until cold and store in an airtight tin.

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  • lifter 10 years ago
    You've almost got it right...

    The critical thing is to use butter, as opposed any other suggestion, that would be incorrect, at best...

    Dotting each cookie with a bit of maraschino cherry, or, in a pinch, some sort of Yuletide Fruit, makes each cookie that much better...

    My thought only!
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  • elgourmand2 10 years ago
    Yep, it’s Elgourmand. For some reason, the server decided that my password is wrong. Strange, as it has worked for the last 5 years. Anyway, I had no idea Shortbread was this easy. This weekend. Thanks for the post.
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  • NPMarie 10 years ago
    Very nice shortbread recipe!
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