Classic Scottish Shortbread Made Vegan
Scottish shortbread a crumbly biscuit traditionally made from butter, sugar and flour. It gets its name from the high proportion of butter, and it not something you’d enjoy unless you have a really sweet tooth! Evolved from a 12th century ‘biscuit bread’, back in the day when butter was expensive, it was reserved for holidays, which is why perhaps it’s mostly eaten at Christmas even now.
Baked in fingers, rounds or ‘petticoat tails’ (a circle cut into triangular wedges), the main brand (in those tartan tins) is Walkers, but of course is not good for vegans due to a third of the biscuit being butter.
If You Care parchment paper is free from the usual chemicals, and sold in plastic-free packs.
Keep shortbread away from pets, due to high fat and salt. And additional ingredients like citrus or chocolate chips.
Because the ingredients in traditional shortbread are so simple, this recipe is pretty easy to replicate. Just replace the white flour with a better quality organic sugar and flour, use organic icing sugar (to avoid egg) and replace the butter with a good vegan butter block (Flora and Miyoko’s have no palm oil).
Vegan lavender shortbread!
This recipe for lavender shortbread (Wallflower Kitchen) is something a little different. It only needs a few everyday ingredients, though you’ll likely have to order your edible lavender buds online.
Vegan chamomile and lemon shortbread
This recipe for chamomile lemon shortbread (Wallflower Kitchen) contains real vanilla paste and the contents of two chamomile tea bags – Hampstead, Heath & Heather and Clipper are good plastic-free brands.
Unless you have a food waste bin (made into biogas), it’s best to just bin citrus peels, as acids could harm compost creatures.
Vegan chocolate chip shortbread
This recipe for vegan chocolate chip shortbread (Wallflower Kitchen) is another varation from this talented baker. You can buy dairy-free chocolate chips in most indie health shops and groceries (Moo Free and Plamil are the main brands).
Recycle packaging at supermarket bag bins, if your kerbside doesn’t recycle.
