Shortbreads Recipe

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Ingredients
5
Count
Nutrition
1206
Calories
Total time
50
Minutes
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Ingredients:

Directions:

  1. Sift the flour, caster sugar and rice flour or semolina into a mixing bowl, add the cubed butter and rub it with your fingertips until the mixture clings together in heavy lumps. Gather the dough into a ball and then knead it on a lightly floured surface until smooth. Proceed according to how you want the finished shortbread to be shaped.
  2. Moulded Shortbread: Lightly sprinkle an 18-20cm diameter shortbread mould with flour, cut the dough in half, roll out each piece to a round, a little smaller than the mould and press, smooth side down, into the mould to fir it exactly. Carefully turn the dough out onto a flat baking tray. The mixture can also be shaped in small moulds to produce biscuit-sized shortbreads.
  3. Petticoat Tails: Cut the dough in half and roll out onto two rounds each 18-20cm in diametre. Flute the edges with your fingers, then prick them all over with a fork. Alternatively, fir the two rounds into two fluted tins and prick well.
  4. Shortbread Fingers: Press the dough into a shallow, 28x18 cm tin, smooth with a palette knife, then prick weell with a fork.
  5. Having prepared the dough according to the shape chosen, chill it in the refrigerator for 1 hour and pre-heat the oven to 160ºC. Bake the moulded shortbread and petticoat tails for 20-25 minutes and fingers for 25-30 minutes, or until cooked through but not browned.
  6. Remove from the oven and leave to cool and firm up for 5 minutes. Loosen the moulded shortbread and petticoat tails from the baking tray with a palette knife. Mark the petticoat tails into triangles. Cut the fingers into 20 equal pieces while still in the tin. Sprinkle generously with caster sugar.
  7. After 15 minutes, transfer the petticoat tails and moulded shortbread to wire racks to cool completely. Leave the shortbread fingers in the tin until cold.
  8. The shortbread will keep well if stored in an airtight container.
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Nutrition Facts

Per ServingPer 100 g
Amount Per 1 Serving
Calories 1205.63 Kcal (5048 kJ)
Calories from fat 629.81 Kcal
% Daily Value*
Total Fat 69.98g 108%
Cholesterol 134.38mg 45%
Sodium 2091.91mg 87%
Potassium 208.27mg 4%
Total Carbs 133.16g 44%
Sugars 29.58g 118%
Dietary Fiber 10.61g 42%
Protein 13.24g 26%
Vitamin A 0.6mg 21%
Iron 5.9mg 33%
Calcium 292.8mg 29%
Amount Per 100 g
Calories 476.56 Kcal (1995 kJ)
Calories from fat 248.95 Kcal
% Daily Value*
Total Fat 27.66g 108%
Cholesterol 53.12mg 45%
Sodium 826.89mg 87%
Potassium 82.33mg 4%
Total Carbs 52.64g 44%
Sugars 11.69g 118%
Dietary Fiber 4.19g 42%
Protein 5.23g 26%
Vitamin A 0.2mg 21%
Iron 2.3mg 33%
Calcium 115.7mg 29%

* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet. Your daily values may be higher or lower depending on your calorie needs.
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Tastes

  • salty
  • savory
  • bitter
  • sweet
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Weightwatchers Points

  • 29.1
    Points
  • 33
    PointsPlus

Good Points

  • saturated fat free,
  • good source of fiber

Bad Points

  • High in Sodium,
  • High in Total Fat

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