shortbread
a butter cookie commonly made in thick, pie-shaped wheels or rolled and cut in fancy shapes.
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How to use shortbread in a sentence
It turns out shortbread is a great “blank canvas” for adding all kinds of flavorings, from herbs to citrus to nuts and spices to liquor and liqueurs.
Bake These Boozy Hot Buttered Rum Shortbread Cookies | Anna Archibald | December 17, 2021 | The Daily BeastBefore Lisa Ludwinski opened Sister Pie’s brick-and-mortar bakery in Detroit in 2015, shortbread wasn’t really on her radar.
Bake These Boozy Hot Buttered Rum Shortbread Cookies | Anna Archibald | December 17, 2021 | The Daily BeastMy mama prefers the comfort of cakes like the semolina-and-coconut bathk and simple shortbread biscuits like nankhatais.
How I Tried (and Failed) And Tried Again to Master the Goan Bebinca Cake | Joanna Lobo | April 1, 2021 | EaterLinzer cookies typically describe a nut-based shortbread cookie sandwich, filled with berry jam.
This twist on the classic Linzer cookie adds gentle sweetness and texture with corn flour | Roxana Jullapat | December 2, 2020 | Washington PostThe new gluten-free shortbread cookies should have been the most controversial part of the 2014 Girl Scout cookie campaign.
The chocolate mousse nearly finished, Hitz starts up on dessert item No. 2: pecan shortbread cookies.
Mother made tea and gave them shortbread and was so a-flutter herself that she broke one of her company dishes.
Nan Sherwood's Summer Holidays | Annie Roe CarrThis was followed by the handing round of oatcake, cheese, and whisky, and afterwards shortbread and more whisky.
Bygone Church Life in Scotland | VariousThe following is the recipe of an old Ayrshire cook whose shortbread is always considered unsurpassed.
Paper-bag Cookery | Vera SerkoffOr the shortbread—now there was something like shortbread, made after a recipe learned in Brabant!
The Dew of Their Youth | S. R. CrockettHe soon scorned crocus bulbs and even bread-crumbs, insisting on a diet of shortbread cake and nuts.
The Strange Story Book | Mrs. Andrew Lang
British Dictionary definitions for shortbread
/ (ˈʃɔːtˌbrɛd) /
a rich crumbly biscuit made from dough with a large proportion of butter
Origin of shortbread
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