Lime and ginger shortbread

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Lime and ginger shortbread
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adapted from here: http://nombudsman.wordpress.com
Ingredients
  • 250g butter
  • ½ cup caster sugar
  • lime zest and juice from 1 lime
  • 2 cups plain flour
  • ¼ teaspoon salt
  • ⅓ cup crystallised ginger, chopped into very small bits
Method
  1. beat butter and sugar
  2. beat in lime juice and lime zest (30 secs)
  3. add in flour and salt - mix into a dough with a knife
  4. add in ginger and mix through with a knife.
  5. lay sheet of gladwrap on bench
  6. take half the mixture and shape into a long sausage on the gladwrap. The circumference of the sausage shape you make is the size of the biscuit. Wrap gladwrap around the biscuit mix and place in fridge.
  7. Do this for other half of mixture.
  8. After 2 hours remove from fridge.
  9. Heat over 160C degrees
  10. Remove gladwrap and slice. Each slice is a biscuit. Place on tray and bake 25-30 mins until cooked (v lightly browned).

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