Shortbread? Queen Victoria's receipe?

Question

Does anyone have a GREAT Shortbread receipe from Scotland.?????????????

Answer 1

When I was chef back a few year back I worked with a number of Scottish bakers, the best recipe they had was quite simple, good butter, rice flour and all purpose flour, powdered or icing sugar, blended like pie pastry and eith molded in the thisle mold or made in to petticoat tails, jiust namde inot rounds and cut like a pie, rolled and cut like sugar cookies.

The only thing is use unsalted butter, this keeps them crisp and allows the to brown faster, cook at 350 and cool before boxing or putting them in a tin, I like mine with a nice cup of tea or a shot of whiskey for dunking??

Answer 2

I don't, but at the Public Record Office in London I saw a cute recipe for a 1930s 'British Empire Christmas Pudding', with all the ingredients from the different colonies and dominions. It was made for George V.

Answer 3

Otherwise known as Victoria Cake:
http://britannia.cool.ne.jp/recipe/victoria_e.html

Or other traditional recipes of Scotland at:
http://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/usrecipes/shortbread/index.html