Ingredients
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4 cups cake and pastry flour
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6 Tbsp rice flour
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1 cup white sugar, finely granulated
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1 pound soft butter
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1 tsp vanilla extract
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2 egg yolks
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½ tsp salt
Tips
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If you have trouble with cookies sometimes going brown on the bottom, try
using the "top" oven rack in the middle of the oven with another cookie
sheet on the lower rack as a "heat shield" between the element and the
actual cookie sheet.
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Take care not to overcook or the butter starts to brown resulting in a
less tender product with a less buttery flavour. The shortbread should
be a very, very pale gold colour when removed from the oven, and it seems
to darken slightly as it cools.
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Directions
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If the butter is hard, soften slightly by microwaving for 1 to 1½
minutes at 50%.
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Cream butter with an electric mixer until smooth and soft. Add sugar. Add
egg yolks. Beat well. Add vanilla and salt. Add 6 Tbsp rice flour and gradually
add pastry flour 1 cup at a time.
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Put the dough on a big cookie sheet and pat into two big disks, about 9
inches in diameter. Try using a 9 inch cake tin as a big cookie cutter
to get it nice and neat. Cut each disk into twelve triangular slices and
sprinkle with coarse red and green sugar. Pat slightly to make sure the
sugar sticks.
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Bake at 280ºF for an hour. Cut again immediately after removing from
the oven. Allow to cool for ½ hour before loosening with a spatula.
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