Scotland

Scottish shortbread

Name: Scottish shortbread
Total time: 1 h
Yield: 12 servings
Cuisine: Scottish
Ingredients: 1 cup soft butter; 1/2 cup caster plus to sprinkle sugar; 2 1/2 cups maida (all-purpose flour, plain flour); 1/3 cup rice flour; a pinch salt

Buttery, crumbly, melt in the mouth. Only three ingredients, and rice flour for snap.

60 minTime

3 gProtein each

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Grandma's wayButter, sugar, flour: the Scottish ratio.

The original

273kcalsame

3 gproteinsame

1 gfibresame

60minutessame

Shortbread.

Per serving, worked out from the ingredient table.

Ingredients

Butter1 cup, soft

Sugar½ cup caster, plus to sprinkle

Maida (all-purpose flour, plain flour)2½ cups

Rice flour⅓ cup

Salta pinch

Method

4 steps

1Beat butter and sugar until creamy.
2Mix in flour, rice flour and salt just until it comes together.
3Press into a 20 cm tin, prick all over and mark into fingers. Chill 20 minutes.
4Bake at 160 C for 35 to 40 minutes until pale golden. Sprinkle with sugar and cut while warm.

Serve it like this

Stack fingers on a plate or in a tartan tin with tea or coffee.

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Scottish shortbread

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