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From: rn.2332@rose.com
Newsgroups: rec.food.recipes
Subject: Shortbread
Date: 20 Nov 1994 09:49:54 -0500
Organization: Akademia Pana Kleksa, Public Access Uni* Site
Message-ID: <3annmi$dtk@junior.wariat.org>
The following is a great, melt-in-your-mouth recipe:
---------- Recipe via Meal-Master (tm) v8.00
Title: Nicky's Favourite Shortbread
Categories: Baking, Christmas, Tested, Nina lee's, Cookies
Yield: 1 batch
1 c Unsalted butter (room temp.)
1/2 c Icing sugar
2 c All purpose flour*
1/4 ts Baking powder
1/4 ts Salt
Slivers of glaced cherries
* 1 3/4 c if measured before sifting
Cream butter and sugar together until silky. Add sifted dry ingredients
and mix until blended, but just.
Turn out on a lightly floured pastry cloth, & with lightly floured hands,
gather into one lump. (This may appear sloppy & maybe hopeless. As in
pastry, you will go wrong if you are too heavy handed or afraid of it!)
Toss it just a bit to get it to lump and pat out into a square about 1/3
inch thick; square off your edges with a large knife or spatula, smooth
with a stocking rolling pin and cut into 1 inch squares. Place slightly
apart on ungreased cookie sheet with a sliver of cherry on each. Bake at
350 degrees for 15 to 18 minutes. They should be just pale brown on bottom.
WATCH IT, THEY BURN VERY EASILY. Remove gently please, they are still
having birth pangs; place to cool on trays covered with waxed paper. Store
in cans, they keep for weeks in a cool place, and their flavour mellows.
Note: Measurements are US.