Shortbread

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Cuisine: English/Scottish

Course: Cookies/Bars

cookies easy quick quick and easy shortbread

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friederike

11 years ago

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Extremely simple, extremely quick, and quite delicious! I'm only not very sure if they really tasted 100% like what shortbread is supposed to taste - they actually rather reminded me of normal butter cookies.

Some of them I sprinkled with lavender sugar instead of normal caster sugar, which was a nice accent, but not really noticeable. I guess I would have to replace some of the caster sugar in the dough with lavender sugar as well to get a more distinct lavender flavour.

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bunyip · 11 years ago

Lavender sugar on shortbread! Crimmins! My Scots ancestors are spinning in their graves at the very idea. If you want to know what shortbread is supposed to taste like, see if you can get hold of some manufactured by Walkers, which is pretty good for commercial stuff.

friederike · 11 years ago

I used to know what Shortbread tastes like (and I agree that Walkers is very good!), I just haven't had it in a long time. There's too much that needs to be tasted, and I don't eat that many baked goods... And yeah, lavender-flavoured shortbread is anything but authentic, of course (though wasn't there a special connection between Scotland and France? I thought I had read something like that on BBC recently). I think I may have been subconsciously inspired by this recipe: <a href="http://www.101cookbooks.com/archives/rosewater-shortbread-recipe.html">http://www.101cookbooks.com/archives/rosewater-shortbread-recipe.html</a>

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