Orange Shortbread

Preparation info
  • Makes

    50–60

    biscuits
    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
Cooks Country: Modern British Rural Cooking

By Matt Tebbutt

Published 2008

  • About

This also works well with some finely chopped crystallized ginger folded into the flour.

Ingredients

  • 120 g salted butter
  • 60 g caster sugar
  • finely grated zest of

Method

Beat the butter and sugar together in a bowluntil pale. Stir in the orange zest. Fold in the flours and stop when the mix comes together. On a floured surface, roll the shortbread out to 2.5cm thick and chill in rectangular flat packs in the fridge for 30 minutes.

Preheat the oven to 160°C/325°F/gas mark 3