Recipe of Perfect Special shortbread
- By Hilda Sullivan
- 30 Jul, 2020
Special shortbread Recipe. How to set it up? What are the ingredients? Cooking tips and more… It is one of my favourite food recipe, this time i will make it a little bit tasty.
The melt-in-your-mouth texture of these Christmas cookies is wonderful, and the food processor makes it easy. Holiday Shortbread Cookies This special Christmas treat came to me from Scotland through a relative.
Here is the best “Special shortbread” recipe we have found until now. This will be smell and look delicious.
Ingredients of Special shortbread
- Make ready 250 g of plain flour.
- Prepare 125 g of cornflour.
- It’s 125 g of golden caster sugar.
- It’s 250 g of butter (room temp).
The name comes from the fact that "short" was an old usage for the term "crumbly." Because of the high fat content, the biscuit's texture is indeed crumbly and crispy.Darren McGrady, former personal chef to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II has released a video on his YouTube channel, giving away a very special shortbread recipe with a key secret ingredient.Shortbread was expensive and reserved as a luxury for special occasions such as Christmas, Hogmanay (Scottish New Year's Eve), and weddings.In Scotland, it was traditional to break a decorated shortbread cake (infar-cake or dreaming bread) over the head of a new bride on the entrance of her new house.
Special shortbread instructions
- Set oven 150deg C/ gas mark2.
- Cream together butter and sugar.
- Add flours and work together with wooden spoon and thwith your hands..
- Roll out in 2 halves to approx cake tin size. Press into tins and prick all over..
- Bake 60-70 mins.
- Cool in tin, cut into wedges and dredge with caster sugar..
Other recipes don't seem to produce the same perfect texture and flavor.For extra flavor, add a few drops of butter flavoring.This basic Scottish butter shortbread is a simple three-ingredient cookie that is more of the sums of its parts.
With the heart pattern this shortbread and/or pan would make a great Valentine's gift.A friend brought me a tin of Walker's shortbread when I was in the hospital after delivering our twin daughters.Bake Ina Garten's chocolate-dipped Shortbread Cookies for the perfect bite with tea, from Barefoot Contessa on Food Network.Over time butter replaced the yeast and biscuit bread evolved into shortbread.The term "short" refers to the crumbly texture from the large quantity of butter.