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                           Scottish Shortbread

Recipe By     : Cooking Live Show #CL8898
Serving Size  : 1    Preparation Time :0:00
Categories    : Cooking Live                     Import

  Amount  Measure       Ingredient -- Preparation Method
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     1/2  lb            Unsalted butter
     1/2  c             Superfine sugar
   2 1/2  c             All-purpose flour

Preheat the oven to 325 degrees F. Place butter in mixer and beat
with paddle until soft and light. Beat in sugar in a stream and
continue beating 5 to 10 minutes until the mixture is very light and
whitened. Stir in the flour by hand until it absorbed, no more or the
dough will toughen.

Scrape the dough onto a floured surface and flour the dough with
pinches of flour. Press the dough out with your hands, then roll over
once or twice very gently with a rolling pin until the dough is about
1/2" thick. Cut the dough with floured cutters and transfer the cut
pieces to a paper lined pan.

Bake the shortbread for about 15 minutes until it is very lightly
colored. Cool the shortbread on a rack.

To use a shortbread mold to shape, press the mold into the floured
dough and cut around it. Transfer the cut and molded dough to a paper
lined pan and chill about 1 hour until firm. Bake as above.




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