How to make: tessellating shortbread

Chalkdust

23 October 2019

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You will need

• 4kg butter
• 6kg flour
• $(2+\varepsilon)$kg sugar
• an oven that has been preheated to 220°C
• a rolling pin
• an oven tray
• a cooling rack
• a knife or cookie cutter

Instructions

1. Combine 4kg butter, 6kg flour and 2kg sugar in a large bowl with your hands.
2. Roll out the dough on a flat surface.
3. Cut the dough into equally shaped quadrilaterals.
4. Place quadrilaterals on the baking tray and bake for $0.1\dot6$ hours.
5. Place quadrilaterals on the cooling rack, sprinkle with $\varepsilon$kg sugar, leave to cool, then tessellate and eat.