Shortbread is traditionally pressed into an embossed mould and released to reveal an attractive design on the top before baking.

Ingredients:
6oz Plain flour
4oz Soft butter
2oz caster (granulated) sugar
1 oz cornflour

Method:
Mix the butter and sugar together (preferably with a wooden spoon) until it is pale and creamy.

Sieve both the flour and the corn flour into the bowl and mix well.

Put a small amount of flour on your working surface and place the dough on this.

Shake a little flour on top and roll out about quarter inch thick.

Prick with a fork and cut into rounds with a cutter or, if you want one large shortbread round, pinch the edges with thumb and finger all round.

Use a palette knife to lift the shortbread onto an oiled baking tray and bake for 25 minutes in a pre-heated oven at 325F/170C/Gas Mark 3.

If the biscuits are ready, they will be pale brown and crisp; if not, return to the oven for 5 or 10 minutes.

Shake a small amount of caster/granulated sugar on the top of the shortbread immediately after they have been removed from the oven.

Use a palette knife to move them to a cooling rack and store in an airtight tin once they are cold.

Although the word "shortbread" is derived from shortening, and may have been made as early as the 12th Century, it is during the 16th Century that Mary, Queen of Scots favoured the familiar Petticoat Tails which have become famous the world over.

A tradition with the Shortbread was to break it over the head of the bride as she crossed the threshold of her new home.

SCOTTISH TABLET Scottish Tablet, is a very delicious crumbly butter fudge, with a real home made taste from Scotland. Ingredients (for 4 pounds/1.8kg tablet):
Butter or margarine - half pound (225g)
Sweetened condensed milk - one pound (450g)
Castor sugar - 4 pounds (1.8kg)
Water - 1 pint (half litre)

Method
Using a non-stick pan, put the water on a low heat and melt in the butter. Add the sugar and bring to the boil. It is important to keep stirring all the time. Once it is boiling, stir in the condensed milk and simmer for 20 minutes. Again, keep stirring to avoid it sticking/burning. Take off the heat and beat vigorously for five minutes, adding the flavouring of your choice. Pour into a rectangular
greased tin and once it is partly cooled, cut into bars (roughly 5 inches long by 1/2 inches wide). Once the tablet is cold, wrap the bars in waxed paper and store in an airtight jar or tin.

Open a glow stick and add glitter and the fairies will visit!

Cooking Measurement Equivalents

1 tablespoon (tbsp) = 3 teaspoons (tsp)
1/16 cup = 1 tablespoon
1/8 cup = 2 tablespoons
1/6 cup = 2 tablespoons + 2 teaspoons
1/4 cup = 4 tablespoons
1/3 cup = 5 tablespoons + 1 teaspoon
3/8 cup = 6 tablespoons
1/2 cup = 8 tablespoons
2/3 cup = 10 tablespoons + 2 teaspoons
3/4 cup = 12 tablespoons

1 cup = 48 teaspoons
1 cup = 16 tablespoons
8 fluid ounces (fl oz) = 1 cup
1 pint (pt) = 2 cups
1 quart (qt) = 2 pints
4 cups = 1 quart
1 gallon (gal) = 4 quarts
16 ounces (oz) = 1 pound (lb)
1 milliliter (ml) = 1 cubic centimeter (cc)
1 inch (in) = 2.54 centimeters (cm)
Source: United States Dept. of Agriculture (USDA).
U.S.–Metric Cooking Conversions

U.S. to Metric

Capacity Weight
1/5 teaspoon 1 milliliter 1 oz 28 grams
1 teaspoon 5 ml 1 pound 454 grams
1 tablespoon 15 ml
1 fluid oz 30 ml
1/5 cup 47 ml
1 cup 237 ml
2 cups (1 pint) 473 ml
4 cups (1 quart) .95 liter
4 quarts (1 gal.) 3.8 liters

Metric to U.S.

Capacity Weight
1 milliliter 1/5 teaspoon 1 gram .035 ounce
5 ml 1 teaspoon 100 grams 3.5 ounces
15 ml 1 tablespoon 500 grams 1.10 pounds
100 ml 3.4 fluid oz 1 kilogram 2.205 pounds
= 35 ounces
240 ml 1 cup
1 liter 34 fluid oz
= 4.2 cups
= 2.1 pints
= 1.06 quarts
= 0.26 gallon

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Happy Mothers day Dear spiritual celtic,scotish,brithish ...american Sister Boru,I enjoy your emails,music,your picture with your son,also,I wish you and I meet once in the future,I cant come to visit you,but you are wellcome to visit me,now I am visiting the fam.of my amer./can.family in Kelowna BC Ca,you can write to me on my email:rumianaalexander@yahoo.co.uk,Blessed Love Rumiana

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Dear Lady Boru,thanks you for your wonderful music,pictures,videos,it is my real pleasure to watch them,again and again.Today is the Orthodox feast of Saint Helena+her step son,she adopted from the good Emperor Constantia-saint Constantine.They were Empress+Emperor of the Bysantian Emperium in 4 century and had christiany recognised from Britain to Istanmbul{the second capital after Rome-Constantinopolis.On order of God,they travel to Israel and saint Helenas found the original Cross of Jesus +the head of John Baptist{cousin of Jesus},also the thorny crown,the4 nails,the robe+beryel shrowd from the tomb of Jesus,when he was resurected on the 3th day,meeting first his secret wife-Apostel of Apostel,mother of his 2 sons-James+Juda and pregnant with immaculated kiss of divinity again ,with Jesus daughter-Sarah-this was Mariamne MaryMagdalena.Saints Helena+Constantine,restore 300 churches,monasteries in Israel,incl.the Saint Catherina{decapitated for her christian believe}and they pay a lot of gold also to built shrine for her in Mount Sinai monastery+the biggest orthodox-bysantian cathedral Sophia in todays Istanbul,to preserve the Jesus Cross+the head of the son of Mother Maria aunt Elizabeth+his father the high priest of the Temple in Jerusalem-the holy Zahariah.When the turks,invated from minor Asia south Europe,the Bulgarian King BorisIII{ansestor to todays King+ex-PM of Dem.Re.Bulgaria{part of United Europe now}-King Simeon Saxe Coburg-Gotha=King SimeonII Rilski{cousin of Queen ElizabethII of UK},so in 1378,King BorisII,bought the holy artifacts from the turkish gov.and brought to hide in his orthodox Kingdom,recognised from the Popoe of Vatican ,since 681after Christ,I visited the mystic place in OBE/coma,at my 11 th years of age,to meet spirit to spirit the Holy Trinity=God Jahveh Savaot Orion Gwyn al Nudd {one God with 108 names},Jesus,Mother Maria and I was baptised with the Holy Fire{Holy Spirit},I had already my water baptism in st George church,in Sofia,where,I was born.Later ,I visited my mother+family,when I was married to my amer.scotish husband Ron Paul,at my 33 y.of age ,not only in US ritual,West European greek church of Saint Helena+Constantine{since they are protectors of the christian family,also to honour my GrecoMacedonian father Alexander,but to honour my mothe,we married thirth time in Sofia in cathedral Alexander Nevski+visited the small stone church+monastery,where is hidden Jesus Cross:loveRumiana

This had good reviews but I haven't had time to watch it yet.

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