Name: Shortbread biscuits
Cuisine: United Kingdom
Ingredients: 200 g (7 oz) plain (all-purpose) flour; 50 g (1¾ oz) cornflour (cornstarch), semolina or rice flour, or a combination; 75 g (2½ oz) caster (superfine) sugar, plus extra for sprinkling; pinch of sea salt; 175 g (6 oz) butter, at room temperature but not soft; flour, for dusting

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Oats in the North, Wheat from the South

By Regula Ysewijn

Published 2020

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According to Florence Marian McNeill in a 1929 book, The Scots Kitchen, a decorated form of shortbread, known as ‘infar-cake’, was the wedding cake of rural Scotland. On the first day of the marriage, or ‘Infare day’, the infar-cake was broken over the bride’s head on the threshold of her new home. This very old custom finds its origin in paganism.

The textbook shortbread is one part sugar fo

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