THE MANOR TRADITIONAL SHORTBREAD

Shortbread is about the traditional Scottish recipe where the ratio is one part sugar to two parts butter/ marg / ghee. ( I use ghee). It is this combination that creates a soft buttery crumb that melts in your mouth. Ingredients.......125gm of ghee ( butter/ marg ), 1/2 cup of castor sugar ( I use raw castor sugar), 1 cup of rice flour, 1/4 cup of plain flour, 1 tsp of ground cardamon. Preheat your oven to 160 deg C. Line an ungreased baking tray with baking paper, ( no need to grease). Cream the butter/ marg / ghee with the sugar in your mixer until light. In a separate bowl mix together the flours and the cardamon. Add the dry ingredients to the mixer with the combined sugar and ghee, mix well. Now set the mixer bowl aside for 30 minutes. Now place heaped tbs of mixture and spoon onto the prepared ungreased tray, leaving the a little space between. Bake in the preheated oven for 30 minutes or until pale golden. Remove from the oven and allow to cool on the tray. These really do melt in your mouth.