Hey everyone, it’s Jim, welcome to our recipe page. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, traditional shortbread. It is one of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
Shortbread is one of the most famous Scottish cookies. It is eaten around Christmas and is also an essential part of a traditional Scottish New Year (called Hogmanay). The success of a "shortie"—the Scottish nickname for shortbread—is to handle the dough with care and work it as little as possible. I've read a few claims that "traditional" Scottish shortbread is made with farola: "Scottish Shortbread is traditionally made with farola, a free-flowing cream coloured and fine granular powder or flour milled from durum wheat." But the oldest recipes I've researched do not, so this "tradition" may be a later/more contemporary one.
Traditional Shortbread is one of the most popular of recent trending meals on earth. It is appreciated by millions daily. It’s simple, it is fast, it tastes yummy. They’re fine and they look fantastic. Traditional Shortbread is something that I have loved my entire life.
To begin with this recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can cook traditional shortbread using 4 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Traditional Shortbread:
- Make ready 25 p grams of butter, softened
- Make ready 1/2 (1 cup) icing sugar, sifted
- Take 1 2/3 cups plain flour
- Take 1/4 cup rice flour
Shortbread Cookie Tips Should you sift flour when making shortbread? We recommend sifting flour for all baked goods to break up any clumps. It's especially a good idea in this easy cookie recipe that has just three ingredients. If you don't have a sifter, use an electric mixer or try using a balloon whisk or strainer to sift!
Steps to make Traditional Shortbread:
- Beat butter and icing sugadin a bowl with an electric mixer until light and fluffg. Sift in flours, combine well with a wooden spoon.
- Press dough inti a ball. Knead lightly untik smooth. Pat dough into a 23 cn round, about 1 cm thick, on greased baking tray.
- Score into fingers or wedges. Pierce with fork. Bake at 140°c for 35-40 minites or until set and browned.
- Cool on trays for 2-3 minutes. Transfer to a wire rack. When almost cool. Cut througg line into pieces (try using a bread knife in a sawing motion for neat pieces). Cool shortbread completely. Store in an airthight container.
- Note: dough can be rolled out and cut into small rounds or bars, cut with scone or biscuit cutters or pressed into wooden shortbread or butter moulds, as desired. Reduce baking times is cooking smaller pieces.
It's especially a good idea in this easy cookie recipe that has just three ingredients. If you don't have a sifter, use an electric mixer or try using a balloon whisk or strainer to sift! Why is my shortbread too soft? Vary the flavor of your shortbread with the following simple additions. Add flour and mix till texture is like clay.
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