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In British English, shortbread and shortcake have been synonyms for several centuries, starting in the 1400s; both referred to the crisp, crumbly cookie-type baked good, rather than a softer cake. [17] The "short-cake" mentioned in Shakespeare's play The Merry Wives of Windsor, first published in 1602, was a reference to the cookie-style of ...
This is a list of shortbread biscuits and cookies. Shortbread is a type of biscuit or cookie traditionally made from one part sugar, two parts butter, and three parts flour as measured by weight. Shortbread originated in Scotland; the first recorded recipe was by a Scotswoman named Mrs McLintock and printed in 1736. [1] Several varieties of ...
Cookies (British English: biscuits) made traditionally from shortbread, and other foods containing shortbread (not shortcake). Pages in category "Shortbread" The following 27 pages are in this category, out of 27 total.
Lorna Doone is a brand of golden, square-shaped shortbread cookie produced by Nabisco and owned by Mondelez International.Introduced in March 1912, it was possibly named after the main character in R. D. Blackmore's 1869 novel, Lorna Doone, but no record exists as to the exact motivation behind the name.
Large, flat, round shortbread cookies. Jumble: England, possible roots in Italy Cookie-like pastries whose simple recipe comprises nuts, flour, eggs, and sugar, with vanilla, anise, or caraway seed used for flavoring. Kaasstengels: Netherlands and Indonesia: In Indonesia, Kaasstengels usually eaten on Christmas and Lebaran celebrations. Kahk: Egypt
Walker's Shortbread Ltd. (formerly Walkers) is a Scottish manufacturer of shortbread, biscuits, cookies, and crackers. The shortbread is baked in the Moray village of Aberlour, following a recipe developed by Joseph Walker in 1898. The company is one of Scotland's biggest exporters of food, [2] [3] and employs over 1,200 people. [4]
According to the letters of the Marquise de Sévigné, the cookie was maybe created for the first time in Sablé-sur-Sarthe in 1670. [1]The French word sablé means "sandy", [2] a rough equivalent of English "breadcrumbs".
A recipe for a shortbread cookie similar to ghorayebah but without almonds, called in Arabic khushkanānaj gharīb (exotic cookie), is given in the earliest known Arab cookbook, the 10th-century Kitab al-Ṭabīḫ. [6] Kurabiye appears in the Ottoman cuisine in the 15th century. [7] There is some debate about the origin of the words.