Scottish shortbread
Ailsa Burt · bbcgoodfood.com · 2023 · Makes 16 squares
Against 433 shortbread recipes
Less sugar than 92% of recipes and less butter than 89%.
How it compares
Against the typical pan: the median of 433 shortbread recipes, per 100 g of flour.
- Less sugar than 92% of recipes: 25% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 40%.
- Less butter than 89% of recipes: 63% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 81%.
- No salt at all, where 63% of recipes use some (most of those 0.4 to 1.2% of the flour weight).
Ingredients (4)
- 250g unsalted butter softened, plus extra for the tin250 g
- 350g plain flour350 g
- 50g rice flour50 g
- 100g caster sugar plus 1 tbsp100 g
flour 400 gbatter 750 g
Baker's percentages
Grams per 100 g of flour, and where that falls among all 433 recipes. Shaded: the middle half. Tick: the median.
- Butter63% · 10th percentile · median 81%
- Sugar25% · 7th percentile · median 40%
- Starch0% · 42nd percentile · median 0%
- Salt0% · 18th percentile · median 0.4%
Oven
- Temperature
- 350°F / 175°C
- median 350°F
- Time
- 25 to 30 minutes
- median 18 minutes
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