shortbreadn.
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.
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1801 Farmer's Mag. Apr. 217 It can be used for biscuit, bunns, and particularly for short-bread.
1853 J. W. Carlyle Lett. II. 226 A decanter of wine..and a plateful of shortbread.
1891 J. M. Barrie Little Minister II. xviii. 71 Two of those pans, that could be broken in the hands to-day like shortbread.
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