Scottish Shortbread

Preparation info
  • Makes about

    36

    cookies, depending on how large they are cut
    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
Cookies Unlimited

By Nick Malgieri

Published 2000

  • About

This really easy version of this cookie is also the best one I have ever tasted. I’ve had the recipe for years and it comes from Peggy Pinckley, a native of Scotland, who now lives in Springfield, Missouri. I met Peggy in the late 1980s when she came to an afternoon demonstration class I was teaching at Peter Kump’s. After class she invited me to come to teach at her school, the Parisian Pantry. I visited Springfield and taught several times at the school, which no longer e