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shortbread

/ˌʃɔrtˈbrɛd/
/ˈʃɔtbrɛd/
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Other forms: shortbreads

Shortbread is a delicious sweet, crumbly Scottish cookie. If you want to bake your own shortbread, you'll need a lot of butter!

Shortbread recipes vary, but most of them include a magical combination of flour, sugar, and butter. This traditional Scottish biscuit's high fat content gives it a crumbly texture caused by very short strands of gluten — and the short part of its name. Shortbread is associated with Christmas and the New Year in Scotland, where it also goes by the nickname shortie.

Definitions of shortbread
  1. noun
    a very rich, thick butter cookie
    synonyms: shortbread cookie
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    type of:
    butter cookie
    cookie containing much butter
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