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Definition of Shortbread
1. Noun. Very rich thick butter cookie.
Definition of Shortbread
1. Noun. A type of biscuit (cookie), popular in Britain, traditionally made from one part sugar, two parts butter and three parts flour ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Shortbread
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Shortbread
Literary usage of Shortbread
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Edison Monthly by New York Edison Company (1921)
"Scones and shortbread OVER the entrance to 21 Hast 47th Street there swings a
simply worded sign which informs passersby of the presence of The Scotch Tea ..."
2. Scottish Notes and Queries by John Malcolm Bulloch (1901)
"But the characteristic is the Sacramental use of "shortbread," used at tea parties.
This is chosen out of respect to the ordinance, being finer than oatmeal ..."
3. The Kingswood cookery book by H F. Wicken (1885)
"... and shape into small flat cakes, place on a buttered tin, and bake for twenty
minutes. Cut them open, butter well and serve hot. shortbread. ..."
4. Punch by Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman (1879)
"However, it is short and sweet—shortbread and sweetbread all ... Somehow shortbread
sounds like an upholsterer's arm. ..."
5. The Scottish Antiquary, Or, Northern Notes & Queries edited by Arthur Washington Cornelius Hallen, John Horne Stevenson (1891)
"USE OF shortbread AT THE COMMUNION.—At a meeting of Dumfries and Galloway
Antiquarian Society on Thursday evening an interesting discussion took place ..."
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