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gosling ([personal profile] gosling) wrote2003-12-21 05:55 pm
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Why is shortbread called shortbread?
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[identity profile] jbsegal.livejournal.com 2003-12-21 03:08 pm (UTC)(link)
I think because it doesn't rise. Similar to 'quickbreads'...
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[personal profile] skreeky 2003-12-21 03:22 pm (UTC)(link)
Well, you have to admit, it's not very tall.
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[personal profile] coraline 2003-12-21 03:34 pm (UTC)(link)
An article of food, in the form of flat (usually round) cakes, the essential ingredients of which are flour, butter, sugar, mixed in such proportions as to make the cake ‘short’ when baked.

1801 Farmer's Mag. Apr. 217 It can be used for biscuit, bunns, and particularly for short-bread. 1853 MRS. CARLYLE Lett. II. 226 A decanter of wine..and a plateful of shortbread. 1891 BARRIE Little Minister (1892) 201 Two of those pans, that could be broken in the hands to-day like shortbread.

so sayeth the OED.
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