SCOTTISH SHORTBREAD

This is a traditional recipe for Christmas time. Scottish shortbread is made in one piece in a tin and cut into wedges after baking.

Ingredients

175 g butter
75 g caster sugar
175 g plain flour
75 g ground rice or fine semolina
Caster sugar for dusting

Method

Soften the butter and beat in the sugar followed by the flour and ground rice or semolina.
Keep working the ingredients together until they bind together.
Roll out into a circle
Place in a sandwich tin and crimp the edges
Prick all over with a fork
Mark out wedges
Cook in a moderate oven until lightly browned
When cooked, mark the surface again into wedges and when cool remove from the tin
They will crispen as they cool
Dust with caster sugar

Store in an airtight container