Scotch Shortbread

Ingredients

• three tablespoons of flour
• three tablespoons of rice flour
• half a cup of well-creamed butter
• four tablespoons of sugar

Method

1. 1

   Sift flour and rice flour into a bowl, mix with butter and sugar until blended.

2. 2

   Roll out an inch thick, shape into rounds, prick with a fork, and bake in a moderate oven.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Pan-Pacific cook book (1915) by L. L. McLaren, page 85. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

then a tablespoon of flour and a half teaspoon of softened butter ; beat until well mixed. It should be about as thick as cream. Drop a teaspoon of this on the reverse side of a large baking pan, well greased, and spread it into a round wafer, as thin as paper, with the back of a spoon. Bake a light brown in a moderate oven and while warm re- move from the tin and roll around a curling stick. 567. MARZIPAN— GERMAN Chop fine, and pound to a paste, a quarter of a pound of blanched almonds, adding a little white of egg from time to time to prevent oiling; rub in half a pound of confectioner's sugar and another white of egg and make a stiff paste, which spread smoothly in a cake-tin and bake in a slow oven. 568. PLATZEN— HOLLANDAISE Beat the yolks of four eggs until creamy; then beat in two cups of powdered sugar; add a half teaspoon each of cinnamon and cloves and just enough flour to hold the bat- I54 CAKES, LARGE AND SMALL ter together. Line a large baking pan with greased paper; drop by the dessert spoon in rows two inches apart and bake. 569. SCOTCH FANCIES Beat an egg very light; add gradually half a cup of sugar and, when very creamy, beat in a scant tablespoon of melted butter, a cup of rolled oats, a pinch of salt and fifteen drops of vanilla. Drop by the teaspoon on a well greased inverted baking pan an inch apart. Spread into thin round cakes with a wet knife and bake in a moderate oven. 570. SCOTCH SHORTBREAD Sift three tablespoons each of flour and rice flour (or six of flour) into a bowl, and mix well with half a cup of well- creamed butter ; knead with four tablespoons of sugar

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