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I Love the smell of Shortbread in the Morning " It smells like Victory "

Location: Blogs Chef Nick Martin
Posted by: chefnick	Thursday, November 02, 2006
This is probably the most victorious recipe from the swan of the early 80s, Shortbread biscuits that are not only very easy to make, they will; change your outlook on biscuits completely, we used to make a 2 kilo mix of these heaven sent biscuits every 3 days, take, 1lb / 500g butter, 8oz / 200g caster sugar, 4oz / 100g groud rice, 20oz / 600g plain white flour, start by beating the butter with the sugar until white and fluffy, sieve the flour and ground rice into the buitter mix, fold in well, wrap the mix in cling film and place into the fridge for 30 minutes to rest, then roll the pastry out on a lightly floured suface to 5mm thick, cut the biscuits to rounds and carefully scoop onto a lined baking sheet, bake @ 160c for 15/ 20 minutes until light golden coloured, remove from the oven and dust with caster sugar, leave to cool completely before serving with a pot of tea and slices of gingerbread , just ask Sonyia Rickman she will tell you all about the shortbread biscuits, Nick...