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Seasonal Shortbread
for the short-of-time!
Elley Westbrook from Aga Twyford in Leominster has a quick and easy idea for a scrumptious Christmas treat, ideal if you are cooking with an Aga but adaptable for conventional ovens too.
I haven’t stopped since mid-October! We were really privileged to be at the Flavours of Herefordshire Festival at the beginning of November. We took a four oven electric Aga, created a kitchen around it and set about cooking for the weekend. I have no idea how many people came and tasted our ‘Aga in a tent creations’ but we were never quiet…it was fabulous!
However now I have come up for air and I have realised that this month’s recipe should be Christmassy in essence! I expect you are all up to your ears in Christmas Pudding and Cake recipes… so I thought a quick and easy Christmas-themed shortbread was in order!
Ingredients:
✦12oz (325g) plain flour ✦8oz (225g) butter ✦4oz (110g) caster sugar ✦Pinch of cinnamon ✦1 jar mincemeat (340g)
Method: Cooking:
✦1oz (30g) sultanas ✦1oz (30g) dried apricots…chopped ✦1 bulb of root ginger (from a jar in syrup) ✦1 tablespoon of syrup from the ginger jar ✦Icing sugar to sprinkle over at the end
Line a small roasting tin with baking parchment. Put flour, sugar, cinnamon and butter into a processor and whizz until the consistency of sand. Tip about half of this into the roasting tin, spread and press down firmly…use the bottom of a tumbler. Then carefully spread the mincemeat over the shortbread mix, sprinkle on the dried fruit and drizzle on the syrup. Top with the rest of the shortbread mixture, again pressing down. In effect you have created a mincemeat sandwich.
Aga: Two oven – set the tin into a large roasting tin and hang this on the bottom set of runners in the roasting oven with the cold plain shelf above hanging on the second set of runners. Three or four oven – hang from the second set of runners in the baking oven. Conventional oven:Pre-heated to 180C.
Bake for about 25-30 mins. Allow to cool before turning out, cut into squares and dust with icing sugar.
Aga Twyford Ltd Tel. 01568 611124
www.twyford-cookers.com 72 Photos courtesy of Rachel Fish
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