Vanilla Shortbread Biscuits Nigella
Delicious traditional vanilla shortbread recipe from nigella lawson. Full details and images can be found here"
Steps
1.
Preheat the oven to 160c / gas mark 3.
2.
Put the icing sugar , plain flour and cornflour into the bowl of a food processor fitted with the double-bladed knife and give them a quick blitz before adding the butter along with the vanilla seeds youve scraped out of a pod.
3.
Process again until the soft mixture coheres and begins to form a ball , loosely clumping around the blade.
Turn this out on to a swiss roll tin and press to form an even layer , using fingers or the back of a spoon , or both.
Be patient: i promise you it will fit smoothly.
4.
Using the.
I make two incisions lengthways ie to form three layers and then make ten cuts down so that you end up with eleven fingers per layer.
Obviously , the aim should be to cut at regular intervals but dont start getting your ruler out.
Just go by eye: uniformity is the province of the conveyer belt not of home cooking.
Use the tines of a fork to make little holes in each marked-out biscuit: i press down about three times .
Ingredients
icing sugar, plain flour, cornflour, unsalted butter, vanilla pod