Real English Shortbread or 123 Shortbread
"Its as easy as 123 and is absolutley the best shortbread recipe around.
This recipe was given to my grandmother from an old English lady and Im so glad she passed it down to me."
photo by Tinkerbell
- Ready In:
- 25mins
- Ingredients:
- 3
- Yields:
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24 cookies
- Serves:
- 4-6
ingredients
- 236.59 ml sugar
- 473.18 ml butter
- 709.77 ml white flour
directions
- Beat sugar into the softened butter. ( I leave this mixture on the counter for half an hour so that the sugar dissolves into the butter properly. Then pour this into the flour and beat until mixture is white.
- drop by spoonful onto parchment papered cookie sheet place a christmas cherry on top and bake at 300-325 until pale brown. (not sure exactly how long, probably 10- 15 minutes.
- You might want to double the recipe on this one, because you'll end up not being able to put these down.
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Reviews
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These are very tasty shortbread cookies! I love the cherries, as did my kids and my friend's kids who were over baking with me. I made these gluten free by substituting a gluten free flour mix in place of the wheat flour and it was really hard to tell the difference, except these are just a tiny bit lighter in weight than the wheat produces. I used a small (melon ball size) cookie scoop for each cookie and a half of a maraschino cherry. They baked at 300° for 20 minutes. (Timing may be different for wheat flour.) Thanks for sharing your grandmother's recipe, Myacooks! I'll be making it again for the holidays. Made & enjoyed for Spring 2011 Pick A Chef. You've been adopted! :) -
Mine turned out very good! The recipe needs a lot more detail to make them successful, though. First, the cookies should be chilled before going into the oven. I stuck mine in the freezer for 10-15 minutes. This stops them from spreading too thin and burning. Instead of christmas cherries, I made mine into thumbprint cookies and dished a little jam into the middle. This worked very well and my doubled recipe used up almost exactly one 8-oz jar of jam. Second, this recipe's estimate of 2 dozen cookies is quite a bit off. I used #40/2 Tb disher and, with a doubled recipe, got about 80 cookies. Use extreme caution when doubling.
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