Traditional Shortbread. Shortbread is one of the most famous Scottish cookies. It's eaten around Christmas and is also an essential part of Hogmanay, the traditional Scottish New Year. Made with a lot of butter, this was considered a special treat when butter was a luxury item.

The shortbread is sealed to maintain freshness, wrapped with tissue and stamped with our gold foil mark of quality. This is amazingly buttery shortbread, and was easy to make. Mine turned out fantastic, and I commend the submitter for an outstanding recipe. You can have Traditional Shortbread using 4 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Traditional Shortbread

It's 25 of p grams of butter, softened.
It's 1/2 (1 cup) of icing sugar, sifted.
Prepare 1 2/3 cups of plain flour.
You need 1/4 cup of rice flour.

Vary the flavor of your shortbread with the following simple additions. Add flour and mix till texture is like clay. Shortbread is a celebration of simplicity—a combination of butter, sugar, and flour that adds up to so much more. Cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy.

Traditional Shortbread step by step

Beat butter and icing sugadin a bowl with an electric mixer until light and fluffg. Sift in flours, combine well with a wooden spoon..
Press dough inti a ball. Knead lightly untik smooth. Pat dough into a 23 cn round, about 1 cm thick, on greased baking tray..
Score into fingers or wedges. Pierce with fork. Bake at 140°c for 35-40 minites or until set and browned..
Cool on trays for 2-3 minutes. Transfer to a wire rack. When almost cool. Cut througg line into pieces (try using a bread knife in a sawing motion for neat pieces). Cool shortbread completely. Store in an airthight container..
Note: dough can be rolled out and cut into small rounds or bars, cut with scone or biscuit cutters or pressed into wooden shortbread or butter moulds, as desired. Reduce baking times is cooking smaller pieces..

Cool completely on a wire rack. If desired, dust with confectioners' sugar. Shortbread was an expensive luxury and for ordinary people, shortbread was a special treat reserved just for special occasions such as weddings, Christmas and New Year. In Shetland it was traditional to break a decorated shortbread cake over the head of a new bride on the threshold of her new home. Shortbread traditionally has some sort of decoration on it, which both makes it look pretty and allows steam to escape for even baking.