Every bite is rich and buttery with a soft crumbly texture that melts in your mouth. Plus the dough is ready in just five minutes.
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Easy and delicious shortbread cookies
Serious Mealtimes / Amanda Suarez
About 150 miles north of Edinburgh lies the village of Methlick a small community of about 540 people in Aberdeenshire Scotland. It has one main road with a church a school an inn and a small shop. It’s the kind of place where everyone greets everyone by name. Surrounded by farmland and rolling hills the town is where you’ll find what is undoubtedly the best shortbread in the world. Every bite is rich and buttery with a soft crumbly texture that melts in your mouth. On top is a generous layer of golden sugar that glistens in the sunlight as if beckoning you to please take a bite. You won’t find the shortbread in a café or a shop. It’s only available in the kitchen of a feisty charming 85-year-old woman called Evelyn Cook my husband’s grandmother. But lucky me and now lucky you I have the recipe for Evelyn’s magical shortbread and I’m sharing it here.
It was the smell of this shortbread that greeted us when we walked into her house last March. I followed the scent into the kitchen where a freshly made batch barely out of the oven was cooling in the pan. I was starving after the long drive from Edinburgh and I eyed the shortbread eagerly waiting for it to cool enough to eat.
