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Shortbread
Ingredients
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1 1/4
cups all-purpose flour
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3
tablespoons granulated sugar
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1/2
cup butter
Directions
1. Preheat oven to 325F. In a medium bowl stir together flour and sugar. Using a pastry blender, cut in butter until mixture resembles fine crumbs and starts to cling. Using your hands, shape the mixture into a ball and knead until smooth.
2. On a lightly floured surface, roll dough until 1/2 inch thick. Using a 1-1/2-inch cookie cutter, cut dough into circles, rerolling scraps as necessary. Place circles 1 inch apart on an ungreased cookie sheet. Bake in the preheated oven for 20-25 minutes or until bottoms just start to brown. Transfer to write rack and let cool. Makes 16 cookies.
From the Test Kitchen
- Tip *To make shortbread strips, on a lightly floured surface, roll dough into a 6x4-inch rectangle about 1/2 inch thick. Using a utility knife, cut rectangle in half lengthwise, then crosswise into 16 pieces. Bake as directed.
- Variation Spiced Shortbread:Prepare as above, except substitute brown sugar for the granulated sugar and stir 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon, 1/4 teaspoon ground ginger, and 1/8 teaspoon ground cloves into the flour mixture.
- Variation Cherry-Orange Shortbread:Prepare as above, except add 2 teaspoons finely shredded orange peel with the butter and stir in 1/3 cup snipped dried cherries after cutting in the butter.
- Variation Butter-Pecan Shortbread:Prepare as above, except substitute brown sugar for the granulated sugar. After cutting in butter, stir in 2 tablespoons finely chopped pecans. Sprinkle mixture with 1/2 teaspoon vanilla before kneading.
- Variation Lemon-Poppy Seed Shortbread:Prepare as above, except stir 1 tablespoon poppy seeds into flour mixture and add 1 teaspoon finely shredded lemon peel with the butter.
- Variation Cranberry Shortbread:Prepare as above, except after cutting in butter, stir in 1/3 cup snipped dried cranberries.
Nutrition Facts
(Shortbread)
- Servings Per Recipe 16,
- Calories 98,
- Protein (gm) 1,
- Carbohydrate (gm) 10,
- Fat, total (gm) 6,
- Cholesterol (mg) 16,
- Saturated fat (gm) 4,
- Monosaturated fat (gm) 2,
- Sugar, total (gm) 2,
- Vitamin A (IU) 243,
- Thiamin (mg) 0,
- Riboflavin (mg) 0,
- Niacin (mg) 1,
- Folate (µg) 4,
- Sodium (mg) 62,
- Potassium (mg) 12,
- Iron (DV %) 1,
- Starch () 1,
- Fat () 1,
- Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet
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Didn't like this receipt. Didn't have salt to off set the sugar, no flavor, very blan, didn't use flour to roll dough or would have been hard as a rock. :( Waist of ingredients.
10/16/2010 01:29:17 AM Report Abuse