Scottish Shortbread
Camille Berry · tasteofhome.com · 2018 · 4 dozen
Against 433 shortbread recipes
No salt, unlike 63% of recipes.
How it compares
Against the typical pan: the median of 433 shortbread recipes, per 100 g of flour.
- No salt at all, where 63% of recipes use some (most of those 0.4 to 1.2% of the flour weight).
- Butter in the middle half of recipes: 86% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 81%.
Ingredients (3)
- 2 cups butter, softened≈ 454 g
- 1 cup packed brown sugar≈ 220 g
- 4 to 4-1/2 cups all-purpose flour≈ 531 g
flour 531 gbatter 1205 g
≈ marks grams converted from cups and spoons with standard densities; the rest are weights the source printed.
Baker's percentages
Grams per 100 g of flour, and where that falls among all 433 recipes. Shaded: the middle half. Tick: the median.
- Butter86% · 58th percentile · median 81%
- Sugar41% · 57th percentile · median 40%
- Starch0% · 42nd 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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