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How to make shortbread

Ingredients

  • 115g butter at room temperature
  • 50g golden caster sugar plus extra to dust
  • 125g plain flour
  • 50g ground rice

There is nothing nicer than a slice of buttery, crumbly shortbread to enjoy with a cup of tea or coffee and it is simplicity itself and so quick to make. This is our classic recipe but there are many variations, some made with semolina, some with cornflour and others just plain flour. We’ve used a little ground rice in this recipe as it gives a nice crisp biscuit with just a little crunchy texture.

To make the best tasting shortbread use the finest butter you can afford as this is where the flavour comes from!

Scottish Shortbread is traditionally made in a round wooden mould, often decorated with thistles, or pressed into a fluted metal flan tin. And, when marked and broken into triangles are known as petticoat tails. To make shortbread fingers press the mixture into an 18 cm square tin and mark it into fingers so that it can be cut or broken into bars once baked. it is best to mark the shortbread with the back of a knife before baking then cut again as soon as the biscuits come out of the oven, then allow to cool so it will snap easily.

If you want to make the mixture in advance, roll the dough into a sausage shape, wrap in cling film and chill. It will keep in the fridge for several days. When ready to bake cut into thick slices, place on a baking tray and bake for about 25 mins until golden.

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Step 1

Heat the oven to 170°C/150°C Fan/Gas Mark 3. Cut the butter into cubes. Place the butter and sugar in a mixing bowl and beat with a wooden spoon until well combined.

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Step 2

Add the flour and ground rice and beat with a wooden spoon until the mixture comes together, it will be crumbly at first but keep beating and it will form a soft dough.

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Step 3

Dust the work surface with a little flour then pat or roll the dough out to an 18-20 cm circle. Crimp the edge between your finger and thumbs, mark into eight triangles and prick all over with a fork.

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Step 4

Place on a baking tray. Bake for 45 mins or until pale golden. Allow to cool on the tray for 10 mins then cool on a wire rack. Dust with caster sugar.

Shortbread will keep in a cake tin for up to 2 weeks.

Twists

Cherry shortbread
Add 75g finely chopped glace cherries to the mixture then shape and bake as above.

Lavender shortbread rounds
Add 2 tbsp lavender flowers (check they haven’t been sprayed with pesticides) to the mixture and bake as above or roll out a little thinner and cut into rounds with biscuit cutter and bake for about 15 mins until golden.

Choc chip shortbread squares
Mix 100g plain chocolate chips into the soft dough and bake in an 18cm square tin for 40-45 mins until golden. Cut into squares and drizzle with melted chocolate if liked.

Ginger shortbread triangles
Finely chop 3 pieces preserved ginger from a jar and mix into the soft dough. Roll out thinly and cut into squares, Mark each with the back of knife into 2 triangles and bake for about 20-25 mins or until golden. Cool and snap in half.

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Cinnamon buns

The plan for this morning was to write some hilarious thing about something or other as an introduction to these terrific cinammon buns, while the carpet man replaced the scraggy old carpet in what is about to be Kitty’s new bedroom.

It was all going so well. I hadn’t lost the recipe for the cinnamon buns, (a miracle), my laptop was working (double miracle), I’d had a cup of tea and the carpet man was actually early (such a miracle that I ought, then, to have smelled a rat).

But then he brought in the wrong carpet. It was a stripey one, the one we use on the stairs. Not the plain beige one, that we use in bedrooms.

Oh god!! Oh god oh god oh god I’ve ordered the wrong fucking carpet.

I searched my email, shaking, looking, searching frantically for some indication that this wasn’t my fault. But it just completely was. Is. Is my fault. So I now have to re-order the carpet at vast expense and try, for the rest of the day, not to burst into tears about it.

YOU KNEW I WAS AN IDIOT WHEN YOU MARRIED ME,” I screamed pre-emptively and defensively at my husband, who was standing in the kitchen looking at me sympathetically.

Anyway here’s a recipe for some cinnamon buns. They’re nice.

Cinnamon buns by Edd Kimber
makes 16

For the dough

250ml whole milk
50g butter, plus extra for greasing tin
500g strong white bread flour
30g caster sugar
1 tsp salt
7g fast-action yeast. This is the equivalent of one of those sachets you get in boxes of yeast. I decided instead to use 7g of yeast in a tin, which was past its sell-by date, so the first lot of dough I made didn’t rise and I had to throw it away and start again. It’s all just going so well in my world at the moment.
1 egg, beaten
veg oil for greasing

For the filling

150g light brown soft sugar
3 tbsp ground cinnamon
60g butter, very soft, plus a bit extra to brush over the buns pre-baking
75g currants

… and some icing sugar. Edd mixes 125g icing sugar with 75 cream cheese and 2 tbsp whole milk. I didn’t do this and plain icing is just fine. However, I have tasted this other sort of icing and it is very nice, so if you are so inclined, give it a go.

1 Put the milk and the butter in a small saucepan and heat very gently over the lowest available heat until the butter has melted. Set aside and leave it to cool to a lukewarm temperature.

2 In a bowl, mix together the:

– flour
– sugar
– salt
– yeast

to this add the milk/butter mix and the beaten egg. Mix this round until you have a dough.

3 Flour a surface and knead this for 10 minutes. Ten minutes is a VERY long time, so put a timer on or something because you will want, powerfully, to give up after about 3 minutes.

4 Put the dough in a bowl that is large enough for it to double in size. I do not have a bowl that big so I used a massive saucepan instead. Anyway whatever you use, lightly oil the base and sides.

And NOW stretch some cling film across the top of the pan/bowl in order to form an airtight seal over the dough. I think I am possibly the only person in the world who doesn’t know that you are supposed to do this with dough, but I didn’t. Maybe you don’t know either. Maybe you think, like I used to, that you could just sling a tea-towel over it. No. If you do that air will get to it and form a very thin crust, which will both stop the dough from rising properly and also make it very difficult to shape later.

You’re all laughing at me now, I can tell. Go ahead! I don’t care! Kick me while I’m down why don’t you.

5 Leave the dough to rise in a warm place for 1 hr. While this is happening grease with butter a 23cm x 33cm high sided baking tin. If you, like me, don’t have one of these, you can use whatever combination of high-sided baking tins you’ve got to fit the buns in.

6 Tip your dough out onto a floured surface and roll out to 40x50cm. I ended up using a tape measure for this. The funny thing about rolling out dough like this is that at first you think – how am I going to roll this out to any sort of rectangle shape? If you try the dough sort springs back on itself and will only go into a round shape. But if you keep on rolling it out thinner and thinner it suddenly complies and relaxes into a rounded sort of rectangle. It has to be seen to be believed.

7 Mix the brown sugar and the cinnamon together in a bowl. Now take your 60g of very soft butter and spread the dough with it. Now sprinkle over the sugar mixture and then the currants. Don’t be afraid to press all this into the dough reasonably firmly.

8 Now roll all this up into a tight log shape. I’m sure the Bake-Off Masterclasses showed a terribly clever way of doing this, but I missed that episode, so just do this the best way you can see how.

9 Trim the ends off the roll and then cut into 16 pieces. I used a tape measure again for this. All you do is mark out the middle of the roll, and then mark out the middles of those two halves and then again until you’ve got 16 bits. Cut these up and then arrange in your collection (or not) of baking tins then leave THESE to rise for 45 mins, again with the tins covered with an airtight seal of clingfilm. Before baking brush these with some melted butter.

10 Now – to bake. My oven is a fan oven and therefore nukes anything I bake, which is why I don’t do much baking. If you have one of these wretched bloody ovens then bake your buns at 165 for 30 mins, laying a sheet of foil over the buns for the last 15 mins of baking time. If you don’t have a fan oven, bake these at 180 for 30 mins, but also cover for the last 15 mins of baking time.

I lost my nerve halfway through baking these and turned the temp up to 180 and although the buns were a triumph, if anything they were a tiny bit over-cooked. So next time I will just stick to 165 the whole way.

11 Mix up whatever icing you are using and drizzle or spread once the buns have cooled a bit.

Eat and then hang yourself with a length of carpet gripper.

 

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