Scotch Shortbread - Grandma Farrelly Recipe
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Ingredients: 3 cups Crisco
¼ pound butter
1 teaspoon salt
1 ¼ - 1½ cups sugar (I think that Grandma used the 1 ¼ cups)
1 teaspoon lemon extract
1 teaspoon orange extract
8 cups flour
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Directions:Place sugar, salt and 6 cups flour (save 2 cups to work in by hand) in electric mixing bowl. Add Crisco and butter. Pour flavorings over shortening so that it doesn’t get into the flour. (Grandma said this would make dark spots in the shortbread. I find that some does get into the flour, but using the electric mixer like I do seems to prevent the dark spots). Mix till well blended and very creamy.
Place 2 cups of flour on the counter and scoop out dough from bowl into the flour. Knead and pat till smooth. (Grandma would pick up the dough and throw it down on the counter to help in the kneading process.)
There are two ways to shape and bake the dough.
1. Rounds - Divide in two pieces. Pat each half into an 8 inch cake pan. Using a fork, poke holes in the top of the shortbread, sort of like you would prepare a one crust pie. Bake 1 hour at 300 degrees F. You probably remember that the baked dough was very pale….almost white. The bottom of the shortbread would be light brown but the top would be cream colored. Leave the shortbread in the cake pan to cool but cut in wedges while the short bread is still warm and in the cake pan or it will crumble. (At first, this is the way that Grandma always baked the shortbread.)
2. Cookies - Divide dough into two pieces. Pat out half of the dough on the counter top and pat to about ½ to ¾ inch thick. Cut out with cookie cutters. Pat out scraps and cut cookies until dough is gone. I have cookie prints with designs on them that I dip in sugar and imprint each cookie. If you don’t have prints use a fork and poke holes in top in a design. Bake these at 300 degrees for about 20-25 minutes. (When she showed me how to make the shortbread she had already started making these cookies as well as the “rounds”.)
You can also use cookie molds. Iva gave me a round wooden mold about 8 inches across that turns out quite nicely.
The time she showed me how to make the shortbread she must have been about 90 years old. She worked all the dough by hand (not like my lazy way of using an electric mixer!) I was worried she would have a heart attack as her face got very red and she was breathing very hard. |
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