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Default Shortbread and shortenin' bread.

In article >,
Lou Decruss > wrote:

> On Wed, 29 Oct 2008 12:47:45 -0600, Omelet >
> wrote:
>
> <big snip>
>
> >> Okay, that's a TOTALLY different recipe! Sounds interesting. Thanks for
> >> posting it.
> >>
> >> And it's wheat free which is good for me as well as others.

> >
> >Sorry, I mis-posted. Should have been wheat reduced, not wheat free!

>
> Actually it's very interesting. So I make it a lot. Wheat isn't a
> problem for me so I don't understand that end of it. I'm wondering if
> maybe you could replace half the flour with it? I don't understand
> the properties of each but I'd be willing to try it.


I can tolerate limited amounts of wheat, so long as I don't pig out on
it.
>
> So I just put 2 sticks of butter in a bowl to soften. You bad OM!! I
> didn't plan on this today. I have the masa and everything else so
> it's worth a try unless you or someone else tells me it won't work.
> The KA is at the cottage to I'll have to use the hand mixer but it
> should be fine.
>
> I'll report back with pictures. (maybe)


<snicker>
They are good cookies and oh GODS the childhood memories shorbreads have
for me! It'd be worth the indigestion. ;-)

>
> OH! Rolling the logs is easiest by rough forming them in a buttered
> baking dish and rocking it back and forth.
>
> Lou


Mom rolled them between two sheets of waxed paper.
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