Shortbread
Shortbread

Hey everyone, I hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, shortbread. One of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Shortbread is a traditional Scottish biscuit usually made from one part white sugar, two parts butter, and either three parts oat flour or four parts plain wheat flour. Other ingredients such as rice flour or cornflour are often substituted for part of the flour to alter the texture. Scottish shortbread is a biscuit to really sink your teeth into. Crumbly, dense and rich, it's made with a generous amount of butter, which gives it its melt-in-the-mouth texture.

Shortbread is one of the most popular of current trending meals on earth. It is easy, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. It’s appreciated by millions daily. Shortbread is something that I have loved my whole life. They’re nice and they look wonderful.

To get started with this recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can have shortbread using 6 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Shortbread:
  1. Take 240 g (2 cups) plain flour
  2. Make ready 36 g (1/4 cup) rice flour
  3. Prepare 65 g (1/4 cup) caster sugar, more for sprinkling
  4. Take zest grated from 1 lemon and 1 lime
  5. Take 1/2 tsp fine sea salt (1/2 teaspoon)
  6. Prepare 225 g (2 sticks) unsalted butter, melted and cooled

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Instructions to make Shortbread:
  1. Preheat the oven to 180C/350F/gas 4. Line an 18 x 23cm or 20 x 20 square (7 x 9in, or 8 x 8 square) baking tin with parchment.
  2. Mix the lemon and lime zest into the sugar. Stir the flours, flavoured sugar and salt together and pour in melted butter when it has cooled down. Mix well with a spoon.
  3. Press the dough into the lined tin. You can mark lines with a sharp knife or a pastry cutter for cutting the fingers when baked.
  4. Bake for 30-35 minutes until pale golden.
  5. Remove from the oven and sprinkle with caster sugar (plain or mixed with more lemon zest). Cut the shortbread into fingers taken out of tin but still in the parchment– it will make 16 medium sized ones.
  6. Cool them completely on a wire rack – they will be awfully crumbly at first but will set as they cool.

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