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.
Yield: 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
- 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.
- Shape in two flat rounds, 6″ in diameter on ungreased pans. Flute edges and prick all over with fork.
- Bake at 300 degrees for 50 minutes or until light brown. Watch carefully; do not over-bake.m
- When cool, break into chunks to serve.
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