Transatlantic Shortbread

In this episode of Americans Baking in Britain, we are making shortbread. Before all our things arrived from the move, we experimented with new recipes because our beloved binder of favorite recipes was packed up with the rest of our kitchen supplies. Our internet had not yet been properly set up (it took three entire weeks for that to happen, by the way!) so we used the only recipe we had at hand: a recipe for Traditional English Shortbread on the side of our plain (that isn't really plain) flour bag.

You can't really go wrong with white flour, butter, and sugar, which is pretty much all the recipe called for. But I also couldn't bear to use just white flour, butter, and sugar. So instead of making proper English Shortbread according to the recipe on our flour bag, we Americanized it by substituting maple syrup for the sugar (actually, we technically probably Canada-ized it, because I'm pretty sure our maple syrup came from Canada.) Then, because the maple syrup made it so much more, well, syrup-y, I added some finely ground coconut flour. And then I swapped out half the not-really-plain flour for wholemeal flour. By the end, I don't think our shortbread much resembled anything Traditional or English, but it did taste mighty good!


 The kids liked it! In fact, they asked to add it to our recipe binder once it arrived.


We had it with almond and coconut milk hot chocolate, as one does when it is a cold and rainy day in England and you are recovering from the flu. (We are not currently recovering, this was a few weeks ago before our stuff came...We have been blessedly healthy for a full two weeks!)

The kids declared this Transatlantic Shortbread to be yummier than the proper shortbread we bought from the store. So it's a win for cross-cultural exchange!

Comments

  1. din 'illahi6 March 2018 at 07:23

    Sounds yummy. I’m like you, I can’t ever follow a recipe exactly as written. I can’t help but edit or adjust it to suit my whims and preferences.
    Glad you are all still healthy!

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    1. Rachel6 March 2018 at 07:42

      Me, too. Especially if there is a way to make it with less sugar or more whole wheat! The kids call it my hippy food :)

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