Mum was a fantastic baker and it is something as a Vicar's wife she had a lot to do.
Shortbread
This will make a very buttery short Shortbread.
Ingredients
3 Oz Cornflour
3 Oz Caster Sugar
8 Oz Plain Flour
8 Oz Cubed Butter, salted
1/2 Teaspoon of Vanilla extract ( personal favourite Ndali Vanilla extract from Waitrose
Ndali Vanilla )
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| 1. Get grease proofed paper cut and ready in container |
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| 2. Cubed Salted butter |
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| 3. Caster sugar added |
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| 4. Flour, cornflour, vanilla also added |
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| 5. Mix slowly |
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| 6. Combine to look like large breadcrumbs |
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| 7. Mix until one ball or combine in the tray |
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| 8. Pierce dough with a fork and decorate the edge |
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| 10. 150 C for 40-45 min leave in after for approx 10 min |
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| 9. Not immediately nor when cold CUT |
This is the easiest thing to do. Put all the ingredients in a mixing bowl and mix. Initially the mix will combine to look like breadcrumbs which will then combine to one clump giving your mixer a hernia trying to mix it : )
Use a greased and baking parchment covered tin and put the mix in ensuring that it is in all corners. I then add a fluted pattern around the edge and fork the mixture over. Why? because that's what my mum did.
In my oven it then goes in at 150 C for 40-45 minutes. I tend to then turn the oven off and leave it in there for 20 minutes. Guess work really, most people like the Shortbread yellow and light and crumbly however my OH likes a little more colour and a more caramel taste!!
Dundee cake
You can have this plain or add split flaked almonds on top (whole almonds divided down the middle) in increasing sized circles - Mum called it Toenail cake : ) it appealed to a kids uggy nature!!
Ingredients
6 Oz Butter
6 Oz Caster Sugar
4 Eggs
10 Oz Self Raising Flour
1 lb Soft Fruit mix including raisins, currants and peel, personally NO cherries, ughhhhhh
150 C 2 hours, personally I would look at 1 and a half hours then judge from there.
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