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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 8 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 8 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 8 years ago
    Very nice shortbread recipe!
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