My Scottish Grandma's Famous Shortbread Recipe + Why I Flew to Florida for it!
Every year for Xmas my grandma made Scottish style shortbread cookies. This is my attempt at replicating them. I hope she likes them, let me know what you think in the comments!
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SCOTTISH SHORTBREAD RECIPE
320g or 2 -2.5 CUPS AP FLOUR
110g or 1/2 CUP WHITE RICE FLOUR
110g or 1/2 CUP SUGAR
220g or 2 STICKS COLD BUTTER(16 TBSP) (cut into small cubes or grated on box grater)
3g SALT or 1/2 tsp
1. Combine flour, rice flour, butter, sugar, and salt in bowl of stand mixer or in medium mixing bowl
2. Mix on low speed for 3-4 minutes or until butter and flour are pebble like
3. Mix on medium speed for 10 more minutes or about 15 minutes in total or until dough is formed and is clearing the bowl as shown in video.
4. Once mixed, move dough over to half sheet pan lined with parchment paper
5. Press shortbread dough into a rough 9x7 or 20x17cm rectangle (roughly)
6. If you'd like perfect rectangles, perforate as shown in video, then score with fork
7. Bake at 275F or 135C for 45 mins to 75 mins depending on how crunchy you'd like.
45 mins will be soft and light, 75 mins will be crunchy and golden.
8. Take out and let cool 10 mins.
9 Cut along perforations while still hot...serve
CHOCOLATE CHIP SHORTBREAD VARIATION
320g or 2-2.5 CUPS AP FLOUR
110g or 1/2 CUP WHITE RICE FLOUR
55g or 1/4C. SUGAR
55g 0r 1/4C. BROWN SUGAR
3g or 3/4tsp VANILLA EXTRACT
220g or 2 STICKS (16 TBPS) COLD BUTTER (cut into small cubes or grated on box grater)
3g or 1/2 tsp SALT
115g or 4 OZ 70% CACAO CHOCOLATE
Follow recipe as before, add chopped chocolate after dough is clearing bowl.
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Making traditional Scottish shortbread
Rena Harrop has been practicing her recipe for 70 years. Want to try it yourself? Follow these steps:
Ingredients:
1 lb butter (Harrop says to use farm-fresh butter, not salted)
2 cups berry sugar
4 cups flour
2 tablespoons rice flour
Directions:
Mix the sugar and two flours together in a bowl. Then, start incorporating the dry mixture into the butter. Harrop says using her hands to do this achieves the desirable consistency. Once it’s mixed, put the dough on the counter and knead until it’s pliable.
Then, use a rolling pin to roll it flat and cut it into whatever shapes you want.
Bake the cookies in the oven at 300F for 30 to 40 minutes. Harrop says don’t wait until the cookies turn brown—remove them once the edges start to turn a cream colour.
Then, put them on a rack to cool and sprinkle more sugar on top.
How to Make the Best Scottish Shortbread (recipe from Tartine Bakery in San Francisco)
I absolutely LOVE this shortbread! It is perfection. If you've ever visited Tartine Bakery in San Francisco, you know the quality of their baked goods. What makes me so happy about this recipe is it bakes up exactly like the shortbread I have always purchased when in the city. Give this simple recipe a try and find out for yourself that it will melt in your mouth and is the very BEST shortbread you could ever make!
Pamela
Shortbread
1 cup + 2 tbsp very soft, unsalted butter/9 oz/255 g
1/2 teaspoon salt/ 2 ml
1 3/4 cup + 2 tbsp all purpose flour/9 oz/ 255 g
1/2 cup + 2 tbsp cornstarch */ 2 2/3 oz/ 75 g
1/3 cup granulated sugar / 2 1/2 oz/ 70 g
1/4 cup superfine or granulated sugar (for topping)/ 2 oz/55g
Preheat oven to 325 degrees. Butter a 6 x 10 inch glass baking dish. ( I have used metal pans with no problems and different size pans as long as the overall area is very close to 6x10)
Place very soft butter in a mixing bowl. The butter must be very soft- the consistency of mayonnaise or whipped cream. Add the salt to the butter and mix well with a wooden spoon or whisk so that the salt dissolves completely before adding the rest of ingredients.
Sift flour and cornstarch together into a bowl.
Add granulated sugar to the butter and mix just until combined. Add the flour mixture and mix just until a smooth dough forms.
Pat the dough evenly into the prepared baking dish. The dough should be no more than 2/3 inch deep. Bake until the top and bottom are lightly browned, about 30 minutes. ( I bake mine a bit longer to get the desired light golden color) The middle of the shortbread should remain light. Let cool on wire rack until warm to the touch.
Sprinkle the shortbread with the superfine or granulated sugar. Tilt the dish so the sugar fully and evenly coats the surface, then tip out the excess sugar. With a very thin, sharp knife, cut the shortbread in rectangular fingers about 1/2 inch wide and 2 inches long. ( I like to cut mine a bit wider)
If the cookies have become cold they will not slice well so they must still be warm to the touch at this point. Chill thoroughly before removing from the baking dish.
The first cookie is difficult to remove, but the rest should come out easily with the aid of a small, thin offset spatula. The cookies will keep in an airtight container in a cool place for up to two weeks.
* You may use rice flour or potato starch in place of the cornstarch. Rice flour will give shortbread a bit more crunch. Cornstarch is the softest of all, making a short and flaky cookie.
Go, eat your food with gladness, and drink your wine with a joyful heart...
Ecclesiastes 9:7
Gran's Scottish Shortbread Recipe - 4 Ingredients! Glen And Friends Cooking
Gran's Scottish Shortbread Recipe - 4 Ingredients! Glen And Friends Cooking
Gran always said the secret to her shortbread recipe was using rice flour. You end up with an all butter shortbread that will just melt on your tongue, leaving a huge grin on your face. You can bake this shortbread recipe as rolled and cut-out cookies, or in a fancy stoneware shortbread mold... or as we've always done; a shaped round that is cut into wedges after cooking. This is a great egg free cookie recipe. Don't think of this as just a holiday cookie, or a Christmas cookie recipe - these are great all year round. A melt on your tongue rice flour shortbread recipe.
*In the early 1700s - to late 1800's Scotland was the centre of the global rice trade. Rice from Asia and from 'The Colonies' was imported to Scotland for processing and then traded on to the rest of Europe.
In 1775 alone more than 44,000. tons of rice were imported to Scotland from the Southern Colonies. That's just one year; and the numbers grow year over year until the late 1890s when trade shifted.
Some of that rice remained in the local Scottish economy and marketplace.*
Ingredients:
250 mL (1 cup) unsalted butter at room temperature
125 mL (1/2 cup) superfine or fruit sugar
125 mL (1/2 cup) rice flour
375 mL - 425 mL (1 1/2 to 1 3/4 cup) all purpose flour
Method:
In a bowl cream the butter.
Gradually add sugar and beat until fluffy.
Gradually add rice flour and all purpose flour until the mixture is too difficult to mix with a spoon.
Turn onto a floured board and knead lightly, drawing in flour until the dough begins to crack.
Form into a ball, cover in plastic wrap and refrigerate for at least 30 minutes.
Preheat oven to 150ºC (300ºF).
Cut ball into half.
Place one segment on one side of an un-greased baking sheet.
Pat the dough into a circular shape roughly 1/4 inch thick.
Take a fork and prick a lovely pattern onto the top of the dough.
Do the same for the second segment of dough.
Bake for 45 minutes to 1 hour.
When the dough is slightly golden remove from the oven and let sit for 5 minutes.
Cut into wedges and remove from baking sheet to cooling rack.
OR
Roll out the dough to 1/4 inch thick and cut into cookie shapes.
Place on an un-greased baking sheet and bake for 15 to 18 minutes in an oven set at 300ºF.
When slightly golden remove from oven and let stand for 5 minutes.
Remove from baking sheet onto cooling rack.
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All butter SCOTTISH SHORTBREAD with 4 ingredients | Tea for Two
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Today we're making an all butter Scottish Shortbread that everyone will like because who doesn't like shortbread? It's a really easy, uncomplicated recipe made with simple ingredients and very little work. I'm always amazed that you can make such delicious biscuits with just these ingredients. So if you need a midweek snack, give this one a go!
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FULL WRITTEN RECIPE:
INGREDIENTS:
120g butter
60g caster sugar
180g plain flour
pinch of salt
plus extra sugar for sprinkling on top
EQUIPMENT:
6 inch / 15cm square pan
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