home made short bread biscuits

Ingredients::

:

• 150g Wheat Flour (all purpose flour)

• 80g Rice flour - Optional (For texture)

• 150g Butter (I used salted) 

• 50g Icing Sugar

Directions:::

Step 1: Score the butter and cut out 150g of it. Divide the butter into 6 halves.

Step 2: Sift the all purpose flour, Rice flour and icing sugar into a bowl. Place the butter on the dry ingredients and work into it with your fingers making sure everything gets incorporated. 

Step 3: Mold into a ball and place in a plastic bag. With a rolling pin, roll out the dough in the plastic and score into 18-21 squares. The angle the blade of the knife makes with the surface of the dough is important in determining how the cut will be made. Place the dough into the refrigerator to firm up for about 15mins.

Step 4: Bring out the scored dough and cut through the marks. Insert a fork through the cut dough. This is done to make way for air bubbles to escape while baking as well as give it the Original shortbread look

Step 5: Separate the shortbread on the pan and place in the oven. Bake for about an hour till firm but not browned at 190°c /375 °F. Remove from the oven and leave to cool on the tray. The more it cools, the firmer it becomes. 

Enjoy with a cup of tea for breakfast or as a snack :).                                                            Note:- For the rice flour, i milled ordinary raw rice till smooth. Please do not use margarine for this as the results are totally different. Also, do not add anything extra such as flavorings if you want the real shortbread taste you've grown to love.

Note:- Please do not substitute the butter in this recipe for margarine else it won't come out as Shortbread. Also, don't add any other ingredients l, not even milk. Stick to the above recipe