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    Brazil Nut Shortbread
    Recipe #170541 | 1¼ hours | 15 min prep | add private note
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    By: Chef Kate
    May 30, 2006

    A really good, really rich South Amercian cookie, great with coffee or chocolate. From Leith's Latin American Cooking.
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    Ingredients
    1/2 cup brazil nut
    1/4 lb unsalted butter, softened
    6 tablespoons brown sugar, packed
    3/4 cup flour
    3 tablespoons rice flour
    1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
    Directions
    1Pre-heat the oven to 325 degrees F.
    2Grind the Brazil nuts finely.
    3Beat the butter until fluffy, add the sugar and beat until fluffy again--do beat adequately.
    4Sift in the flours and the nuts and work to a smooth dough.
    5Cover a baking sheet with parchment.
    6place a 6" flan ring or tart form on the cookie sheet to use as a guide.
    7Press the dough onto the sheet inside the ring to form a neat 6" inch circle.
    8Remove the ring and flatten the dought slightly with a rolling pin.
    9Prick the circle of dough with a fork and score it into eight wedges.
    10Sprinkle with a little granulated sugar and bake for forty minutes.
    11Remove from the oven and cut along the score lines and leave to cool for two minutes.
    12Lift onto a rack and cool completely.
    13If they don't get immediately eaten, store in an airtight container.

 

 

 


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