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Scrumptious Shortbread

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Scrumptious Shortbread. Ingredients: 150g plain flour, 100g butter or margarine, 50g caster sugar. Optional extras : stem ginger, grated lemon or orange rind, poppy seeds, chopped cashew nuts. Pre-heat the oven, Gas mark 3 / 170°C. 1. Grease a 20cm square cake tin. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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Ingredients: 150g plain flour, 100g butter or margarine, 50g caster sugar. Optional extras: stem ginger, grated lemon or orange rind, poppy seeds, chopped cashew nuts

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Pre-heat the oven, Gas mark 3 / 170°C.

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1. Grease a 20cm square cake tin.

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2. Sieve the flour into a mixing bowl.

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3. Chop up the butter and add to the flour.

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4. Rub the fat into the flour using fingertips, until the mixture looks like fine breadcrumbs.

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5. Add the sugar and any optional ingredients. Here I’ve added 25g chopped stem ginger.

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6. Work the mixture firmly with the fingertips until it starts to stick together.

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7. Press it together into a ball.

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8. Press the dough into the greased tin.

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9. Level off the surface with the back of a tablespoon.

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10. Prick all over with a fork and bake for about 30 minutes – Gas 3 / 170°C.

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11. When cooked it should be a pale golden colour. Mark into 9 squares and leave to cool in the tin.

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12. If you wish, you can sprinkle a little caster sugar on the top before serving.