Scottish Shortbread
photo by The_Swedish_Chef
- Ready In:
- 1hr 15mins
- Ingredients:
- 4
- Yields:
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2 large cookie
- Serves:
- 16
ingredients
- 226.79 g salted butter (very room temperature)
- 118.29 ml granulated sugar, plus
- 29.58 ml granulated sugar
- 650.62 ml all-purpose flour (use whitelily if you can find it)
directions
- Cream the butter and sugar to whipped cream consistancy in a food processor.
- Hand knead in the flour, one third at a time always forming a ball.
- Don't add the next one third of flour until all of the dough you are currently working with is glistening. The only way to achieve this consistency is using the heat from your hands. You need to squeeze and knead the dough to get it to stick together. An electric mixer will not work for this part of the recipe.
- Pre-heat the oven to 325 when you add the last 1/3 of the flour.
- Once the kneading is complete, cut the dough in half and hand form 2 seven inch round by 3/4 inch high rounds.
- Lightly prick the top of the rounds all over with fork tines.
- Bake for 40-45 minutes. It should be a pretty, light tan color.
- Cool for at least an hour before cutting into 8 pie shaped pieces.
- I like mine with my morning tea� Enjoy!
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Reviews
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I cannot believe that I have not rated this yet. I had difficulty at first but found it was "operator error". I simply didn't let the butter soften enough before I started mixing! I made this while my son was home and it disappeared quickly. In fact I made it three more times while he was home and it kept disappearing! He loved it so much that I made two batches for him to take with him to Maldives. He also wanted the recipe as he thought he could get all the ingredients in the Atolls. Thanks.
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This was a delightfully sweet shortbread! I found the recipe via a thread that had a lot of interest about the 20 minute kneading time. My friends that I shared this with enjoyed it immensely and the plate was picked clean of shortbread slices! To read all the interesting comments about all things shortbread, here's the link: http://www.recipezaar.com/bb/viewtopic.zsp?t=325685
RECIPE SUBMITTED BY
Karens Krazy Kitchen
United States