Best ever Scottish shortbread
Best ever Scottish shortbread

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Best ever Scottish shortbread is one of the most well liked of recent trending foods in the world. It is simple, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. It is enjoyed by millions daily. They’re nice and they look wonderful. Best ever Scottish shortbread is something that I’ve loved my entire life.

Scottish Shortbread when well made is a great example of simple perfection. In this video I will show you how to make the best Scottish Shortbread. This recipe comes straight from my Scottish friend, Joke, which was passed down from. Scottish Shortbread cookies are great to eat, but also easy to make with the recipe I share.

To get started with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can have best ever scottish shortbread using 3 ingredients and 17 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Best ever Scottish shortbread:
  1. Prepare 12 oz Plain flour
  2. Make ready 8 oz Slightly salted butter
  3. Prepare 4 oz Caster sugar

Traditional finger shape with a well-baked even colour and a rustic crumbliness that our panel loved. The sweet buttery aroma that had our panel's mouths watering was well-balanced. While in a Scottish boarding school we learned how to make the easiest and most melt in your mouth shortbread cookies. The recipe I learned only had three ingredients!

Steps to make Best ever Scottish shortbread:
  1. Line a baking tray with parchment and turn the oven on to gas mark 3 low.
  2. Add the plain flour and chopped butter to a large mixing bowl.
  3. Rub the butter into the flour until it resembles fine breadcrumbs.
  4. Add the caster sugar and carry on rubbing in until thoroughly dispersed in the mixture.
  5. When the mixture starts to stick together, knead until it forms a nice pliable dough.
  6. Knead into a square block.
  7. Shape into a square slab on a chopping board.
  8. 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.
  9. Take each piece in turn and roll into a sausage shape.
  10. Cut with a sharp knife into eight circles.
  11. Place each biscuit carefully onto the baking tray spaced to allow for spreading during cooking. Prick each biscuit three times with a fork.
  12. 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.
  13. 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.
  14. Cool them on a wire rack.
  15. When cooled dip each shortbread biscuit into a bowl of caster sugar and shake off the excess sugar.
  16. These biscuits store well in a tin.
  17. Enjoy!

While in a Scottish boarding school we learned how to make the easiest and most melt in your mouth shortbread cookies. The recipe I learned only had three ingredients! Let's make the best ( and most authentic and easiest) Scottish shortbread ever! This seriously has to be the best traditional scottish shortbread cookies recipe ever. It's full of light, flaky layers that are perfect with tea or milk.

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