Crossword clues for shortbread
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
also short-bread, 1755, from short (see shortening) + bread (n.).
Wiktionary
n. A type of biscuit (cookie), popular in Britain, traditionally made from one part sugar, two parts butter and three parts flour
WordNet
n. very rich thick butter cookie [syn: shortbread cookie]
Wikipedia
Shortbread is a type of biscuit ( American English: cookie) traditionally made from one part white sugar, two parts butter, and three parts flour (by weight). The use of plain white (wheat) flour is common today, and other ingredients like ground rice or cornflour are sometimes added to alter the texture. Also, modern recipes often deviate from the pure three ingredients by splitting the sugar portion into equal parts granulated sugar and icing sugar ( powdered sugar in American English) and many further add a portion of salt.
Shortbread is different from shortcake, though they are similar. The difference is that shortcake can be made using vegetable fat instead of butter and usually has a chemical leavening agent such as baking powder, which gives it a different texture. Shortbread biscuits are often associated with normal egg-based biscuits, but they hold their shape under pressure, making them ideal for packed meals.
Shortbread originated in Scotland, with the first printed recipe, in 1736, from a Scotswoman named Mrs McLintock. Shortbread is widely associated with Christmas and Hogmanay festivities in Scotland, and the Scottish brand Walkers Shortbread is exported around the world.
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.