I like the buttery biscuit base!!!

So tonight Talia and her friend are over sewing. I was sewing too but then Talia asked me to make plum dumplings that were in the freezer. While they were boiling away I showed her the recipe card from the shortbread pan my Mom got her and I told her to pick one and I would make it some time later in the week.

She really liked the sound of the lemon shortbread. So much so that she asked me to make it tonight. So off I went using the last of the butter to make shortbread. This time since I had the shortbread pan I put it in there. There was an oddness though. I added the 1 cup of flour to the creamed butter and it was still way to sort. Not dough like at all. So I kept adding flour until it was kind of dough like and then I put it in the oven. Oh, I should also mention that I don't have any vegetable oil spray so I just used some margarine to try and prevent it from sticking to the pan.

So as the bread was baking I started to think about the last time I made it using the Jamie Oliver recipe. I remembered that that recipe took half of the package of butter (I used the other half for this time) and so I looked it up and that's right, I had way too much butter. The Oliver recipe calls for 1 cup of butter and the pan recipe calls for 1/2 cups of butter. So I had twice the butter than I needed. But it was too late. It was already in the pan baking.

As you might guess it didn't quite come out correctly. But it still tasted good.

And for your listening/viewing pleasure.... Buttery Biscuit Base

~(' ')~