Scotch Shortbread Cookies
Recipe: #19055
May 15, 2015
Categories: Desserts, Cookies, Dairy, British, 5 Ingredients Or Less, Kid Pleaser, Christmas, Entertaining, Potluck, Oven Bake, No Eggs, Vegetarian, Make it from scratch, Cut Out, Flour, Sugar, Butter/Margarine, Kosher Dairy more
"This is an old recipe from the American Woman's Cookbook, originally published in 1938. It was my dad's favorite cookie. Prep time includes chilling time."
Original recipe yields 36 servings
Ingredients
Nutritional
- Serving Size: 1 (18 g)
- Calories 86.8
- Total Fat - 5.3 g
- Saturated Fat - 3.3 g
- Cholesterol - 13.6 mg
- Sodium - 45.2 mg
- Total Carbohydrate - 9.6 g
- Dietary Fiber - 0.8 g
- Sugars - 4.2 g
- Protein - 1 g
- Calcium - 4.1 mg
- Iron - 0.3 mg
- Vitamin C - 0 mg
- Thiamin - 0 mg
Step by Step Method
Step 1
Beat butter and brown sugar together until light and fluffy.
Step 2
Mix in flour.
Step 3
Wrap dough and chill for about 1 hour, or until firm enough to roll out.
Step 4
Preheat oven to 325°.
Step 5
Roll dough out on lightly floured board.
Step 6
Cut out cookies.
Step 7
Place on ungreased baking sheets.
Step 8
Bake for about 20 minutes, or until lightly browned at edges.
Tips & Variations
No special items needed.