Hey everyone, it’s Drew, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to make a distinctive dish, best ever scottish shortbread. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
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To begin with this recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can cook best ever scottish shortbread using 3 ingredients and 17 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Best ever Scottish shortbread:
- Make ready 12 oz Plain flour
- Prepare 8 oz Slightly salted butter
- Get 4 oz Caster sugar
Steps to make Best ever Scottish shortbread:
- Line a baking tray with parchment and turn the oven on to gas mark 3 low.
- Add the plain flour and chopped butter to a large mixing bowl.
- Rub the butter into the flour until it resembles fine breadcrumbs.
- Add the caster sugar and carry on rubbing in until thoroughly dispersed in the mixture.
- When the mixture starts to stick together, knead until it forms a nice pliable dough.
- Knead into a square block.
- Shape into a square slab on a chopping board.
- If following my quantities as listed above, cut the slab into four, but if doubling the ingredients enough to make 64 biscuits shape into a rectangle and cut into eight pieces as shown in the picture here.
- Take each piece in turn and roll into a sausage shape.
- Cut with a sharp knife into eight circles.
- Place each biscuit carefully onto the baking tray spaced to allow for spreading during cooking. Prick each biscuit three times with a fork.
- Place on the middle shelf of the oven on a low setting and cook the biscuits for about 35 to 40 minutes. Do not let them get too dark in color, they should be a very pale color when done.
- Take out of the oven and leave to cool down a bit before taking them off the tray as they will be too soft and break.
- Cool them on a wire rack.
- When cooled dip each shortbread biscuit into a bowl of caster sugar and shake off the excess sugar.
- These biscuits store well in a tin.
- Enjoy!
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