''Of course I'll stay to tea'' said Anne gaily. ''I was dying to be asked. My mouth has been watering for some more of your grandma's delicious shortbread ever since I had tea here before. '' (Anne of Avonlea)
Shortbread (12 wedges)
1/2 cup butter at room temperature 125 ml
2 tbsp granulated sugar 2 ml
1/4 tbp vanilla 1 ml
11/4 all purpose flour 300 ml
pinch salt
1 tsp granulated sugar 5 ml
Preheat your oven to 160 c.
Blend together with a wooden spoon (like my grand dad used to learn me) the butter, 2 tbsp (25 ml) sugar and the vanilla until the mixture is light and fluffy.
Mix in the floor and salt until the mixture is nice and crumble. Squeeze the dough into a ball with your hands and put it in the middle of an non greased baking sheet.
Pat the dough, with your hands into a 18 cm circle. The dough must be about 1.25 cm thick. Prick with a fork deeply in the dough so that 12 pie shaped wedges are outlined.
Sprinkle the dough with the tbsp of sugar, you may like to use colored sugar.
Bake your shortbread in 20 to 25 minutes, or until it is slightly browned. Let it cool for a moment and then cut it into 12 wedges.
In their play room upstairs the girls have been setting up a tea table, just as Anne of Green Gables. Cups and wooden biscuits, spoons and small girly bags. Velvet costumes have been used to cover the table and the chairs. Red and purple colors. The red capes once served for the personage of Red Riding Hood, the purple one, a magician cape and tool in my theatre workshop. All costumes were made in good old Beijing.
The shortbread is a simple and homemade treat and tastes even better in the romantic scene created upstairs.
(Baked from the book: The Anne of Green Gables Treasury)
Shortbread (12 wedges)
1/2 cup butter at room temperature 125 ml
2 tbsp granulated sugar 2 ml
1/4 tbp vanilla 1 ml
11/4 all purpose flour 300 ml
pinch salt
1 tsp granulated sugar 5 ml
Preheat your oven to 160 c.
Blend together with a wooden spoon (like my grand dad used to learn me) the butter, 2 tbsp (25 ml) sugar and the vanilla until the mixture is light and fluffy.
Mix in the floor and salt until the mixture is nice and crumble. Squeeze the dough into a ball with your hands and put it in the middle of an non greased baking sheet.
Pat the dough, with your hands into a 18 cm circle. The dough must be about 1.25 cm thick. Prick with a fork deeply in the dough so that 12 pie shaped wedges are outlined.
Sprinkle the dough with the tbsp of sugar, you may like to use colored sugar.
Bake your shortbread in 20 to 25 minutes, or until it is slightly browned. Let it cool for a moment and then cut it into 12 wedges.
In their play room upstairs the girls have been setting up a tea table, just as Anne of Green Gables. Cups and wooden biscuits, spoons and small girly bags. Velvet costumes have been used to cover the table and the chairs. Red and purple colors. The red capes once served for the personage of Red Riding Hood, the purple one, a magician cape and tool in my theatre workshop. All costumes were made in good old Beijing.
The shortbread is a simple and homemade treat and tastes even better in the romantic scene created upstairs.
(Baked from the book: The Anne of Green Gables Treasury)