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Easy Traditional Scottish shortbread
This is a super easy traditional Scottish shortbread recipe that tastes buttery and delicious and will always have you coming back for more!
Ingredients
- 175 g plain flour
- 60 g caster sugar
- 115 g butter chilled
- 1 pinch salt
Instructions
- preheat oven to 170C and grease a small baking tray
- Sieve the dry ingredients into a mixing bowl
- Add the chilled butter cut into cubes and rub in with your fingertips till you have a breadcrumb-like mix
- Lightly roll out to approximately 1/2" (1.5cm) and press lightly into the prepared baking tin and score into fingers with a knife then press lightly with a fork all over
- Bake for 35 minutes till it is only just turning lightly golden. Allow to cool in tin
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Notes
Do not over work the dough. Just bring it together, roll and bake.
Your homemade shortbread can keep up to 4 weeks in an airtight tin.
Nutrition
Calories: 157kcalCarbohydrates: 33gProtein: 4gFat: 1gSaturated Fat: 0.4gPolyunsaturated Fat: 0.2gMonounsaturated Fat: 0.2gCholesterol: 2mgSodium: 27mgPotassium: 57mgFiber: 1gSugar: 11gVitamin A: 32IUCalcium: 27mgIron: 1mg
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