Scottish Recipes: Balmoral Shortbread

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Ingredients

12 oz ( 375 g ) plain flour; 4 oz ( 125 g ) sugar; 8 oz ( 225 g ) butter; pinch of salt.

Makes 36 - preheat the oven to 350 deg F/ 180 deg C or gas mark 4

Sift the flour onto a board. Put the sugar into a separate pile and, using both hands, work all the sugar into the butter.

Now start kneading in the flour a little at a time.

When all the flour is worked in you should have a firm ball of dough.

Sprinkle a little flour on the board and roll out very thinly 1/8 " - 1/4 " ( 3 - 5 mm ).

Cut into circles about 2 1/2 " in diameter ( 6 1/2 cm ) and prick with a fork in domino fashion with three pricks.

Bake on a greased tray in a moderate oven for 30 minutes.