To go with the book, I decided to make their recipe for Scottish Shortbread as an extra present and I am soooooooo glad I did. After trying to make vanilla shortbread a while back from a BBC GoodFood recipe which was nothing short of disappointing (they were vanilla biscuits, not shortbread). This new recipe was nothing short of fabulous. I think the main difference was that T3C recipe called for rice flour.
Now two days before Christmas (yes, it was a Sunday too), in a Tesco Extra the size of, erm, something very large with two floors I didn't think this would cause me too much of a problem. After failing on my first visit, Hubby reluctantly came back with me after I got home & found out rice flour is gluten free. Disappointingly I still couldn't find any. So we drove to Sainsbury's. Nope, no rice flour. So we tried the larger Sainsbury's - that had closed 5 minutes before we arrived. Gah.
Christmas Eve arrived and I was in work but Hubby had a list of things that we still needed to get so he tried a smaller (not small) Tesco in Chester & found me a packet of all that is light and crumbly, rice flour.
I made 3 trays full of biscuits on Christmas Eve and threw away a lot of dough. Everyone who tasted the biscuit the next day were very complimentary, even though they were made with Danish butter! A few biscuits were more golden than the others but here is a couple of wee photos...
3 comments:
Hi Claire, Oooooh I have this cookbook too "The Three Chimneys" it's a great buy!! The marmalade recipe is fantastic and also the hot marmalade pudding not to mention whisky fruit loaf very delicious ;)) Thanks for the info on rice flour and where to get it! I will keep an eye out now for it!
Happy New Year 2008 and I look forward to viewing all your lovely creations this year.
Rosie x
Hey Rosie, I'll pass that on to my mum & dad ;)
If you see the rice flour when out & about, pick a bag up. These shortbread are a must try!
x
Oh, looks lovely--I have to check out this book! That shortbread looks amazing. What a talented baker! Love the photo by your profile too :-)
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