Shortbread

Ingredients

• 1/2 lb Very dry flour
• 4 ozs Butter
• 6 ozs Sugar
• 1 tsp Cream
• 1tbsp Sweet almonds
• 1 pinch Ammonia
• 1 pinch Salt

Method

Bake for one hour

Ingredients

• 1/4 lb Butter
• 2 ozs Caster sugar
• 1 dsp Rice flour
• 1 Heaped cup Ordinary flour

Method

Beat butter and sugar to a cream, then mix in rice flour, then ordinary flour. Knead well together on baking board, flatten to about 1/2 inch thickness. Mark edge with finger and thumb then mark top with  a fork. Put on white paper. See that the oven is pretty hot before putting in gradually cooling it. Bake to a light brown, when taken from the oven it will be soft but will harden when cold.