Mary's Scottish Shortbread
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- My Mother's secret shortbread recipe - best shortbread in the world.
If you enjoy this recipe check out "Mary's Scottish Cheese Scones"
• Mary's Scottish Cheese...
"Mary's Hungarian Cheese Straws"
• Mary's Hungarian Chees...
and "Mary's Bramble Jam" - enjoy!
• Mary's Bramble Jam
Dear Mary's son . . . Here's what I learned from your video.
You are a fortunate soul to be loved and nurtured by this generous woman.
She knows in her hands how the butter, sugar, and flours should feel at every stage of blending and shaping. And she knows in her heart her dear son, all the many days and nights since you were conceived, born, and grew and as you now grow.
Thank you, good son, for sharing your well-honored mother Mary and her Scottish Shortbread.
Cheers, Mary!
I always think it is so kind of someone to share a family recipe with strangers, i think that it is the ultimate sacrifice for a cook, we appreciate your mom sharing with us may God bless your mom, you and the whole family :-)
Three generations of passing this recipe down. Thank you so much for sharing this with us. I have been looking for an authentic Scottish Shortbread recipe. I usually buy the Walkers but now I am thrilled I'll have my own recipe. Your a doll Mary!
very cute video. shortbread is amazing
Thank you Mary for sharing your recipe!!! Made these at Christmas time, and they were amazing!
nicely explained
what was the name of that pretty song playing in the background?
Hi Donna. The song is "Home" by Michael Buble from his album "It's Time". Enjoy!
I figured it was playing in the background and you couldn't remove it. I found it very distracting and made it difficult to catch what she was saying.
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@kwkrajczar Woops - I made a mistake on the conversion. My Mum meant 0.75c of berry sugar and rice flour (she just looks at the measuring cup which has ounces as a measurement of volume and not weight). So the correct weight measurements should be:
450g butter
120g berry sugar
120g rice flour
400g regular flour
Oh, now I´ve got it, THANK YOU! :) Greets from Austria! (Not Australia) ;))
Thank you so sooooo much , I promise I will make sure to pass down this recipe as Mary's Scottish shortbread cookies!, Your incredible lucky to have a mum like that
Karoly Krajczar thank you so much for the recipe. Mary’s recipe is being made & consumed with great delight in Dunedin, New Zealand 🇳🇿😀
I use Salted butter in Shortbread
What a treasure to have. I wish I had thought to do this with my grandmother and her recipes. It's just WONDERFUL!
Not sure if you guys cares but if you are bored like me during the covid times then you can watch pretty much all of the new movies on instaflixxer. Have been watching with my gf lately :)
@Erik Royce definitely, I've been watching on instaflixxer for since november myself :D
What a lovely Mum! This is the recipe I would trust - I've been looking into shortbread for a while now and baking day is around the corner, I think I'm starting with this recipe. The other vids with some young american telling me how to do shortbread just don't seem that trustworthy compared to this! =)
She is a great Mum! You will enjoy the shortbread - it is the best I've ever had. All the best.
scottish ladies like this are always lovely ^^ i would know, i live in scotland
Thank you Mary and co! Made everyone great Scottish shortbread gifts here in Australia using your traditional recipe. It will now become a part of my family tradition. It is in my recipe book under MARY's Scottish Shortbread! THANKING YOU FOR SHARING XXX PS. It is totally delicious.
She would be thrilled to hear Melanie. I make them every year for all my friends and family and everybody loves them. Take care.
450 gm Butter
170 gm Caster Sugar
170 gm Rice Flour
367 gm White Wheat Flour
120 GR SUGAR NOT 170!!!
@trulykiwi Thanks for you comment. My Mum always said if you mix it by hand it tastes much better - although she always uses her hands so don't know how she knows this. The potato masher is her favourite cooking instrument. You should check out Mary's Bramble Jam video where the potato masher makes another cameo. All the best.
She's adorable :) So awesome that you baked this together, good memories and yummy shortbread
OH how I love this! Bob's your uncle :D
I've done 2 other youtube videos (3 in total) of my Mum. The second one was "Mary's Bramble Jam" and the latest is "Mary's Scottish Cheese Scones". If you want plain scones you can simply eliminate the cheese from the recipe - they are really good. You should be able to find them by typing in the titles above and I will try and figure out how to link the videos together. All the best.
I have just made these using Mary’s wonderful recipe!!!
This may be 10 years late but THANK YOU Mary!!!! All my love from Orlando 🌈🌈🌈
not just Scottish Shortbread, but Mary's Scottish Shortbread. I'm hunting for easy shortbread recipe, and none of them are good... Thanks for sharing this wonderful recipe!
For years I was looking for the recipe .Finally I founded a great recipe thank you .I made it all ready really good.I always going to remember your Sweet Mom .Im so grateful.Thank you for sharing.😍😘❤❤❤
Thanks Miriam. My Mum loved to bake and her shortbread is legendary. I made about 10 batches this Christmas for friends and neighbors. Check out her Scottish Cheese Scone video - they are really good too.
Time to make Mary's wonderful shortbread again. Simply delicious
Virginia Aulin do you have the measurements in cups?
Awwwww Bliss her... isn't she lovely? you remind me about my Grandma's bread and different pastries she always do to me when i were child.... this video made me home sick... Thank Karoly for sharing this amazing video which is full of love and passion.
My grandmother was a great cook also,and she used her hands to. After all they didn;t have all the things they have today. I have all those things today, but I catch myself using my hand for a lot of things,maybe its because I can remember the olden days, I'm 85 years old. If you don't have all those modern gadgets, you use what you have. your hands. very good recipe.
What a lovely woman!
Thank you for the recipe. it so nice helping your mother. It seems that you have a judge (dad ) with you 🙂. May God bless you all. I love Scottish people. Love from Kuwait 👌❤🇰🇼
Thank you for this video! In today's world many of us young adults don't have anyone around to teach us how to make traditional food. You've filled in part of that gap. Thanks for sharing your knowledge! Can't wait 'till they come out of the oven . . .
Mary is my new mother! ....I just made these cookies I didn't have rice flour but they turned out GREAT!! One Canadian to another?
Came for a recipe for shortbread, your mum is a sweetheart~
"...and Bob's your uncle!!" Put the biggest smile on my face all day - thank you for sharing, Karoly!
Such a lovely Mum. I will try the recipe now for our Christmas time 🙏😊
What a lovely video, your mother is such a sweet woman! This is such a great way to keep and share family recipes, I wish we had done this with my grandmother. She took all of her heart-warming recipes with her when she left us :(
i skipped a bunch of recipe vids including gordon ramsay's til i found a proper granny
i have been looking for this throughout the whole week, my hunt for best chef in short bread ends here, i have a strong feeling that this is the best of the best traditional way, thank you from the bottom of my heart, from Walvis Bay
I folowed every step of the recipe until came the cooking time. My oven did not have 300. The maximum was 250! I was lucky to check them the first 10 minutes when I realized 300 was Fahrenheit, HAHAHAHA. Overcooked a little but very good taste.
Anstria Greenwood no she was using centigrade, as we do in the United Kingdom. Mixing up Fahrenheit and Centigrade = *bad times*
Anstria Greenwood lol even toaster ovens go up to 450 degrees, mine does,
now that it's just me I use it all the time, don't know what I'd do without it.
Not Celcius. 450 Celcius would be almost 900 degrees Farenheit.
Omg I made them today to put into valentines boxes I've eaten 6 hearts 😅😅
Your mum is so cute ❤️
Loved watching this lovely lady show us how to make her Scottish shortbread. It made me want to whip up a batch right away and that I'll do!
elyb so many recipes for shortcake bisc i have a job findin rice flour
What an absolute treasure 💖💖💖
what a great lady, thank you for sharing a family recipe 😊
Yummy! She is too cute! Can she adopt me for free? We can start our own cookies bakery 😋
P.s. Great background music 🎶
pound of butter? Got that right! Brought up on shortbread...Clan MacArthur..
Aww such a lovely scotish lady, love her... and her shortbread too :)
she is soooo lovely that's brings me tears i remembered my mom
THIS is the shortbread I've been looking for. Thank you, Mary!
love this video, made my day thank you!
Shes so precious!!!
Thank You Sweetheart Mary, for sharing this recipe, I will make it today💜 God Bless You Abundantly🎁
Silvia I just made about 200 in the last 2 nights. They are a hit with all our friends and colleagues. Enjoy!
What a sweet lady. I would have loved to have visited her. A pretty great son too. Karoly you know how to select music tracks. Hope your dad is well and RIP Mary you were a sweetheart.
Oh my goodness I love love loved this video, your mom is the sweetest ever. It so takes me back to my aunts from the old country baking their shortbread which we always had at tea time when we visited. Thanks so much for your post and I'll be using this recipe this year for sore👍
Thank you. Don't forget to check out Mum's other 3 videos - Mary's Scottish cheese scones, Mary's Bramble Jam and Mary's Hungarian Cheese Straws. Just made a double batch of the shortbread - awesome!
yummy - mary should have her own tv series......can you ask mary to do some scottish scones sometime - either plain or with sultanas as i cant find a decent recepie anywhere ;)
I'm from Fife Scotland and confirm this recipe is legit
Omg!! She sounds so cute!! She's adorable!! I'm trying out this recipe
What a lovely video and great recipe!
So mommy measured flour in the liquid measure cup? Is she did then I will too. Dry and liquid cups are different animals! Lol. I love Bob's your Uncle. Ha
I've just made these. They are lovely. God bless your wee mum xxx love from greenock, scotland x
One of the easiest recipe's I ever followed!!! they taste incredible.😍
I used these measurements:
450g butter
120g berry sugar
120g rice flour
400g regular flour
I accidentally added too much sugar, but I think the above measurements would have been perfect had I stuck to it!
Salted or unsalted butter?
@@kylemansfield570 Unsalted :)
Berry sugar?is it regular caster sugar? Ty
Castor sugar 😊
I think it is: (Google told me :))
170g sugar
390g flour
170g rice flour
450g butter
@TamilGirl26
The measurements in grams are as follows:
1 lb butter = 450g
6oz berry sugar = 170g
6oz rice flour = 170g
3.25c flour = 400g
hi Mary just to say your recipe is truly and auld yin right enough... big thanks from Ayrshire Scotland :~)
Now she's a dear sweet Mum. I did enjoy this vid. The rice flour is the secret hey?
Im skipping my happy butt to the kitchen right now to try this recipe 😊😊 thanking you in advance for the buttery deliciousness Im about to devour 😆😆
Real Scottish Shortbread is the most delicious, comforting treat in the world. Thank you for this great recipe.
How glorious to have this memory to share with generation after generation.
I found this recipe today after reading the Lives Lived column in today's Globe and Mail. It was a remarkable, but brief, telling of your Mother's strength of character and sense of adventure. You'll be glad to have these videos of her to enjoy for years to come. Thanks for the wonderful story, and also for this video of your Mom showing us how to make Scottish shortbread. I am going to make it tonight.
Thanks Susan, she was a wonderful lady. You will love the shortbread and don't forget to try her cheese scones, Hungarian cheese straws and bramble jam (in the summer). Merry Christmas!
Karoly Krajczar The first batch turned out perfectly, Karoly, and I think it will become our family's favourite shortbread recipe. The previous fave was the recipe from Buckingham Palace - so that means your Mom's recipe is better than the Queen's .... in my humble opinion. LOL.
Thanks Mary! Such an adorable lady, you must be very proud :) Happy holidays to you & yours
Mary - your recipe is my favorite - I have used it for 3 year now and whomever eats; loves it
Thank you very much for sharing this recipe and for making this video. It's truly heart-warming.
Thank you, Mary. God bless you..x
aw she is absolutely lovely I will try making her shortbread tonight or sometime this week xx
I love her technique of using a potato masher to mix the butter and sugar
This recipe is a treasure
Thank you for sharing it
Great .regards from Brazil i love Scottish shortbread.
I am in love with Miss Mary! I have to admit that I was in tears by the end of this video, so many things that remind me of my grandma. Wonderful memories that I will be sharing with my cousins. We have missed her my grandmother's wonderful "tea cakes" as she called them for so long and have just recently started the mission to find the recipe. When I saw the shot glass cutting the cookies, I knew... this is it! Being a small kiddo I had no idea that it was a shot glass, I always thought it was a cookie cutter LOL. Just 3 days ago I found out it was my Grandpa's Scotch and Bourbon glass. I will be trying Miss Mary's recipe soon and will teach my not so lucky cousins the art of taking tea with tea cakes that was passed on to me. Thanks so very much for posting this video, it made my day! You are so very blessed!
Mary D. Street thank you for your kind comments. My Mum is no longer with us, but having her videos is a real treasure. We did 3 other videos “Mary’s Scottish Cheese Scones”, “Mary’s Bramble Jam” and “Mary’s Hungarian Cheese Straws”. You can find them all on TH-cam and they are lots of fun. Happy baking!
Imagine- no fancy unnecessary machines!
Just your wits and your 2 hands!
Perfection!
Thank you!
I view this video with great regularity, as it brings back memories of better days, when my grandmother's "soothing Irish Brogue" permeated every nook and cranny of our souls - with 'classic grandmotherly comfort'. (the 'reverse' of that aspect, was when she became p**sed off, and spewed forth fiery vitriol filled with the best in passive aggressiveness)
Thanks for sharing your recipe!!
What so lovely woman!!! Only a question Karoly, when your Mum says "Cups", which is the measurement in oz or gr? Could you be so kind to ask your lovely Mum? Thanks a lot!!
Mary you are adorable! Your recipe was delicious. Thank you so much for sharing your families recipe.
WOW!! Doesn't get any better then this! Thank you for sharing!
I make the same cookie recipe every year my son loves them,
I love my little bit of home.
Thank you very much for this recipe! I'm going to try it in a few days :) Say thanks to your Mom for me!
I am curious about the freezing, I suppose she freezes the uncooked dough, right? Maybe already cut in the circular shape? And when unexpected company comes over how does she defreeze/bake them?Thank you!
Hi Evelina, we freeze them after they have been baked. Pull them out of the freezer for half an hour and they are great. All the best.
Gotta try these for sure. Love the recipe and the Wee bonnie lass accent !
Wonderful video and lovely Mother, gracias!
It was wonderful! I only had all purpose flour and confectioners sugar though - used 1 cup of the sugar and 4 cups of the flour with the 4 sticks of Challenge unsalted butter and baked at the recommend 300 for 30 minutes on bottom oven rack = so wonderfully tender and turned out exactly as shortbread should texture wise ! I put it in my recipe book for making again :) thank you so much!
Great to hear Sarah! I just made 2 batches yesterday for my wife's Christmas party and they are all gone now. If you can find rice flour it adds a nice crunch to the shortbread. If you don't have bakers sugar, regular will do. I haven't tried it with confectioners sugar, but it sounds like it worked out well. All the best.
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I've heard that cornstarch & wheat flour works instead of rice flour & wheat flour.
If you want to make regular sugar finer like caster sugar, you can put it in a blender, food processor, electric coffee grinder, or bullet style blender, to make it finer. Confectionary or powdered sugar works great too.
I'm looking forward to trying this recipe.
What a special gift to treasure and how very gracious & generous of you to share it.
Thank you.
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She's soooo cute!
Amazing recipe thanks a ton for sharing this family jewel.
What an Utterly Delightful Lady, oh and the Shorbread came out Perfecto
she is already so cute n her accent added value cuteness overload
You’re so gorgeous. I love an old fashioned recipe and who doesn’t love shortbread. Definitely trying, can’t wait. You’re so sweet😍thanks for the recipe
ohhh! what a sweetheart! thank you for your recipe
I really enjoyed watching your video, I have never heard of berry sugar, can i buy this in any store or can i use an alternative, many thanks. and do you have a recipe for clootie dumpling?
What a lovely family. Thank you for sharing this delicious recipe
Watching in 2020 Dec. Thanks grandma.
Well done
Thank you Mary. I'm making some today.
Oh, I love this! Thank you for sharing your Mum with us! This is the first real Scottish shortbread I've seen!
I have made a few times very authentic shortbread taste! Thank you very much for sharing.
Wow...amazing woman...I watched this video many times now...
Can somebody give me the measurements in cups plz. Tx a lot
She was the best! 1lb of butter = 2 cups. 6oz of rice flour = 3/4 cup. 6 oz berry sugar = 3/4 cup. All the best!
Oh so cute.