Mrs Irving's Delicious Shortbread - Anne of Green Gables Recipe - Food.com (2024)

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What's the difference between sable biscuits and shortbread? ›

The main difference between classic Scottish or Irish shortbread and French sables is eggs. Sable recipes include eggs or, as in this recipe, egg yolks. The egg adds a rich flavor and delicate texture. Sable means sand or sandy in French and refers to the crumbly, melt-in-your-mouth texture of these delicious cookies.

Shortbread or shortie is a traditional Scottish biscuit usually made from one part white sugar, two parts butter, and three to four parts plain wheat flour. Shortbread does not contain any leavening, such as baking powder or baking soda.

Americans are the outlier on how we use "biscuit"

To most of the rest of the English-speaking world, a biscuit is what Americans would refer to as either a cookie or a cracker. Biscuits can be sweet (shortbread) or savory.

Anne Shirley, the protagonist of the novel Anne of Green Gables (written by Lucy Maude Montgomery and published in 1908), shares the hyperactive and inattentive qualities that fit the current definition of ADHD. She also lacks the menacing characteristics of the 1902 description.

However, after coping with her feelings of abandonment and insecurity, getting her best friend drunk, getting teased by a boy in school, and losing the only real father figure she's ever known, she dyes her hair blonde, dons a plaid shirt and becomes the town whor* of Avonlea."

Avonlea (/ævɒnˈliː/; av-on-LEE) is a fictional community located on Prince Edward Island, Canada, and is the setting of Lucy Maud Montgomery's novel Anne of Green Gables, following the adventures of Anne Shirley, as well as its sequels, and the television series Road to Avonlea.

The French word sablé means "sandy", which is the French term that takes the place of the English "breadcrumbs". Generally, the baker begins the process by rubbing cold butter into flour and sugar to form particles of dough until the texture resembles that of breadcrumbs or sand.

At its simplest, shortbread is a biscuit made from butter, flour, and sugar. Some recipes may also use eggs, icing sugar, corn starch, vanilla essence, or other ingredients, but you can't go wrong with these three basic components.

Shortbread is similar to shortcake but doesn't include baking powder. Lots of rich butter gives shortbread a high fat content, resulting in a fine, crumbly texture. Shortcake and shortbread biscuits are delicious on their own, with fruit and cream, or simply topped with a delicate dusting of sugar.