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Preparation info
    • Difficulty

      Easy

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By Caroline Conran

Published 1978

  • About

Shortbread, in various forms, is liked all the year round, but Christmas is not complete without it. In Scotland, it is particularly eaten during the festive season between Christmas and Hogmanay, when it is always offered to ‘first-footers’: the first to cross the threshold of the house in the New Year.

Ingredients

  • 150 g (5 oz) plain flour
  • 50 g (2

Method

Preheat the oven to 150°C, 300°F, Gas Mark 2. Put all the ingredients in a bowl and rub in the butter with your fingers until the mixture is like finest breadcrumbs. Then knead the mixture to form a smooth dough with no cracks. Turn it on to a board sprinkled with rice flour and form i

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