shortbread

A Dictionary of Food and Nutrition | Date: 2005

shortbread Sweet biscuit baked with a high proportion of butter to flour. Sometimes called shortcake in the USA.


© A Dictionary of Food and Nutrition 2005, originally published by Oxford University Press 2005.

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