[Sca-cooks] Iron Chef Shortbread

[Daniel Myers]

<Homer Simpson Zombie>
mmmMMMmm ... must ... go ... bake ... now!
</Homer Simpson Zombie>

On Monday, September 23, 2002, at 04:19 PM, Marilyn Traber wrote:

> Normally, I go frantic trying to find my printed out off the internet
> basic
> recipe [epicurious] and never manage to find it so i have to go online,
> print it out yet again and modify from there ;-)as most of my
> cookbooks are
> in a box out in the barn.
>
> margali
> as for the rest, well - grind almonds finely, sub for no more than
> about 1/3
> of the flour, taste and add a tiny bit of good almond extract if the
> almond
> is not pronounced enough. Make into balls, flatten with the bottom of a
> glass, poke with the thumb to make an imprint and fill with a dollop of
> jelly [red bean paste] and if i use the red bean paaste, I will
> probably
> bracket a small piece of candied ginger with a couple of slivered
> almonds.
> Bake and try not to eat!
>
> the quote starts here:
> On Monday, September 23, 2002, at 01:39 PM, Gorgeous Muiredach wrote:
>>
>> But really, it's hard to beat a decent plain shortbread.  I find too
>> many
>> people tend to make it overly sweet...  But that's just me :-)
>
> Care to share a recipe? (or have you already done so, and should I just
> go dig through the archives?)
>
> - Doc


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