Christmas Recipes from Canada

Recipe Name: Scottish Shortbread

• 1 lb butter, softened

• 1 cup fruit sugar

• 3 cups all-purpose flour

• 1 tsp salt

• 1 ½ cup corn starch

Cream butter; gradually beat in sugar. Add salt and ½ cup corn starch and mix thoroughly. Add 1 cup flour and mix well.(Easiest with hands). Repeat until all corn starch and flour have been used. Shape into a ball and knead 3 or 4 times on a floured board or until dough is easily handled. Press dough into a cookie pan with sides (15 by 10 by 3/4"). Prick with a fork. Bake for about 1 hour at 300F. Remove from oven and cut into one-inch squares, but leave in pan to cool.The shortbread should be about 1/4" thick.

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