Tea parties - both real and pretend - are a given on rainy days. There’s something about a nice cup of strong tea and shortbread biscuits when it’s gray and wet outdoors. Here’s one of my recipes for shortbread - just in case it’s rainy where you are too. Then it will be like we’re having tea together.

Scottish Shortbread:

2 c butter
1 c brown sugar, packed
4.5 c plain flour
pinch salt

Cream butter and sugar together. Combine salt and flour, and add slowly to the butter/sugar mixture. The dough will be quite stiff. Pat out onto a jelly roll pan and prick with the tines of a fork. Bake at 325F for 20-25 minutes. Cut into rectangles while still warm, let cool in the pan, placed on a cooling rack.

The brown sugar makes the biscuit takes very butterscotch-y. Delish!

Posted: 09|6|08 at 11:05 am. Filed under: from our hearth and home, from the kitchen.
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