Pan-cooked Butter Cookies

Name: Pan-cooked Butter Cookies
Yield: 12 Cookies
Cuisine: British
Ingredients: 60 g Butter *cut into small cubes and softened; 2 tablespoons Caster Sugar; 3/4 cup Plain Flour; *Note: You can add 1-2 tablespoons Black Currants

Hiroko Liston @hirokoliston

Melbourne, Australia

When I was a child, nobody had the oven. Cakes were often steamed and Cookies were cooked on iron plate. I tried to cook my favourite Shortbread dough on my thick-base frying pan. It was quite easy to do.

Hiroko Liston @hirokoliston

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Ingredients

12 Cookies

60 gButter *cut into small cubes and softened
2 tablespoonsCaster Sugar
3/4 cupPlain Flour
*Note: You can add 1-2 tablespoons Black Currants

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Steps

1

Mix softened Butter and Sugar until smooth, add Plain Flour, and mix well. Add Black Currants (*optional) and use your hands to bring the dough together.
2

Roll the dough into 12 balls. Flatten each ball into 8mm thick disc.
3

Heat a frying pan, thick-base pan preferred, over medium heat, then reduce to low heat. Once the temperature of the pan dropped, cook cookies for 6 to 7 minutes on each side. Transfer to a wire rack to cool completely.