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Old Fashioned Scottish Shortbread

November 30, 1999  Lynn R. - Home Cook Avatar
Old Fashioned Scottish Shortbread

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Our whole family looks forward to this delicious, melt-in-your-mouth shortbread every year! It has just three simple ingredients. Usually I make it in rounds and then break it into pieces. This photo shows it in bars as I was taking some to a bake sale.

Old Fashioned Scottish ShortbreadYield: 2 six inch rounds

Ingredients

Flour (preferably unbleached) 2 1/2 cups
Butter, at room temperature 1/2 lb
Brown sugar, lightly packed 2/3 cup

Directions

  1. Combine flour and sugar on baking board. Put butter on top and gradually work in with hands until mixture begins to hold together. Knead until cracks appear on the surface.
  2. Shape in two flat rounds, 6″ in diameter on ungreased pans. Flute edges and prick all over with fork.
  3. Bake at 300 degrees for 50 minutes or until light brown. Watch carefully; do not over-bake.m
  4. When cool, break into chunks to serve.

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