Vanilla Shortbread
Nigella · nigella.com · Makes: 33 fingers
Against 433 shortbread recipes
More starch than 99% of recipes and more butter than 86%.
How it compares
Against the typical pan: the median of 433 shortbread recipes, per 100 g of flour.
- More starch than 99% of recipes: 50% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 0%.
- More butter than 86% of recipes: 100% 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 (6)
- 100 grams icing sugar100 g
- 200 grams plain flour200 g
- 100 grams cornflour100 g
- 200 grams very soft unsalted butter200 g
- seeds from 1 vanilla podn/a
- caster sugarn/a
flour 200 gbatter 600 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.
- Butter100% · 88th percentile · median 81%
- Sugar50% · 73rd percentile · median 40%
- Starch50% · 100th percentile · median 0%
- Salt0% · 18th percentile · median 0.4%
Oven
- Temperature
- 325°F / 165°C
- median 350°F
- Time
- 20 to 25 minutes
- median 18 minutes
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