Heritage Chocolate Shortbread

18 piece box - South Carolina 

Shortbread of South Carolina
A higher ratio of fat to gluten = short

What a lovely and great chocolate shortbread! Not dipped but integrated into the shortbread itself. By far the best we have ever had!

Think sugar, butter, flour, chocolate, and a pinch of salt combined.

Biscuit bread in Medieval times in Scotland started with leftover bread dough, baked in a low-temperature oven until it dried out into a rusk. Biscuit = rusk = twice-baked. 

Leftovers of dough made way to the first published recipe for shortbread (in the 1700’s?) yeast was replaced with butter in the same shortbread recipe we eat today. 

The word same is used loosely. Though the recipe is easy on paper, great results are not. Heritage Shortbread is an excellent representation of what you want in a shortbread. 

It's crispy, crumbly, and tasty, every time you bite into each biscuit in this shortbread gift box. Not too hard and with just the right feel, they are the best shortbread we have had in a long, long time! It is much more difficult to find a shortbread that makes people say, "That's good!" than you might think. So far in both the store and in the warehouse, everyone has said, "That's great!" after having this Heritage chocolate shortbread.

It doesn't get much better than that! A shortbread gift box is a classic holiday hostess gift in the Scottish/English-speaking world.

Ingredients:
Enriched wheat flour, butter (milk), sugar, salt, cocoa beans, pure cane sugar, cocoa butter, soya lecithin, vanilla beans