Shortbread
This is a recipe that my family have been using for years. I believe it is originally a Scottish Recipe as my grandparents used to regularly holiday there, but it is one that has come through the generations. Unusually it includes conflour, a lot of the recipes I have seen use ground rice It can be moulded and will make one large or about 8 small shortbreads, but we tend to use a small square or round cake tray press it down and then prick all over with a fork. It is light, extremely moorish and quite simply delish. We always have shortbread at Christmas. It is one of those things we just automatically make. Christmas just is not Christmas without shortbread. Ingredients 6oz plain flour 2oz cornflour 2oz caster sugar 4oz butter preferably unsalted but comes up quite well with salted sugar to decorate Method Preheat the oven to gas mark 3/160 degrees C.325 degrees F. Lightly flour a mould and line a baking sheet with baking parchment, or grea...