Going to Texas to see my cousin. Her baby is being baptized so my sister and I are driving over and a few other relatives will be there too. I am so excited to see everyone that I decided to bake (of course! What else would I be doing?)
My family is Scottish and very proud of that. I figured that this was the perfect opportunity to make some Scotch shortbread. There are two recipes in Heatter's cookbook, one plain and one walnut. I decided to make both.
Figuring it would be easier I made the plain shortbread first. Needless to say, there was a lot of butter in the recipe. Everything was going fine until I took the cookies out of the oven. For some reason they all burned! I cannot for the life of me figure out why. I checked the temperature on the oven and it was reading normal.
Second batch I decided to bake them for a shorter period of time. This helped but some cookies still burned. I suppose this mystery will never be solved.
The walnut shortbread surprised me because it made significantly different proportions for the ingredients. I figured they would be a little bit different since the walnuts take up some space and all. But wow. I had to enjoy my favorite activity, chopping walnuts!! The cookies turned out better than the plain ones. I watched them like a hawk and made sure nothing burned.
So now my cookies will make their longest journey ever, to Texas
Thursday, October 1, 2009
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