shortbread

shortbread

English

Round shortbread

Etymology

short (“brittle, of pastry”) +‎ bread.

Noun

shortbread (countable and uncountable, plural shortbreads)

1. A type of biscuit (cookie), popular in Britain, traditionally made from one part sugar, two parts butter and three parts flour.

Translations

biscuit

Afrikaans: brosbrood Burmese: နံကထိုင် (my) (namka.htuing) Chinese: Cantonese: 奶油酥餅 Mandarin: 奶油酥餅 Dutch: zandkoekje (nl) n Finnish: murokeksi French: sablé (fr) m German: Butterkeks (de) m

Hebrew: שורטברד‎ Italian: frollino (it) m Japanese: ショートブレッド Kannada: ಗರುಗ ರೊಟ್ಟಿ (kn) (garuga roṭṭi), ಬೆಣ್ಣೆ ಬಿಸ್ಕತ್ತು (kn) (beṇṇe biskattu) Korean: 쇼트브레드 (syoteubeuredeu) Russian: песочное печенье (pesočnoje pečenʹje) Scots: shortbreid Swedish: mördegskaka

Further reading

• shortbread on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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