Traditional Scottish cookie

Usage examples of shortbread.

He had shortbread cookies, ice cream, and frosting-slathered Chocolate Emergency Cookies, plus an insulated coffeepot and cream and sugar containers.

Muffins, johnnycake, rhubarb upside-down cake, jelly-rolls, pies, blueberry grunt, yards of shortbread, hundreds of tea biscuits.

Using the floured tines of a fork, score the shortbreads into eighths.

I showed Julian the beginnings of the soup and the shortbreads, and told him about the now-thickened fudgy chocolate cookie dough.

On the cookie plate are always a few chocolate wafers, but the majority are chalky shortbreads that crumble into little pieces unless the whole thing is ingested at once.

If necessary, Lily would lend Becky her small and veteran tube of the infinitely more grasping and tenacious substance called Miracle Glue, which she stored for safekeeping wrapped in a cotton rag and placed in an old shortbread tin stashed at the back of the spare mitten shelf of the out-of-season coat closet, a precaution taken because, from time to time, one heard of accidental and undesired adhesions involving heedless mis applications of the clearly and sternly labeled stuff.

Once I'd started the buttery shortbreads on their slow bake to divine flakiness, I melted dark bittersweet chocolate with butter and sifted dry ingredients for the 911's.

At each place a souvenir program listed the events of the evening and the bill of fare: haggis, tat ties and nee ps Forfar bridies, Pitlochry salad, tea, shortbread, and a "wee dram" for toasting.

There was time for a wander up and down the aisles of the vcnclors' stalls, selling everything from tartan tics to penny whistles, silver jewelry, clan maps of Scotland, butterscotch and shortbread, letter openers in the shape of claymorcs, lead Highlander figures, books, records, and every imaginablc small item on which a clan badge or motto could be imprinted.

Raspberry muffins, blueberry scones, redcurrant jelly, Abbofs cake, fruitcake, iced cake, shortbread biscuits, almond wafers, fresh cream, sweet cream, whipped cream, pouring cream, honeyed cream, custardy cream, Mrs.