Okay, so this is clearly fuelled by demand and supply, but this illusory demand has been created by the media and their shit-mongers. I'm here to give you a piece of really good advice. You don't need to spend £10 on goji berries or have a shot of aloe vera before breakfast. No, what you need in your life is...brace yourself...you might have heard this before...it's...balance! Oh how simple was that? Eat your greens, don't fry everything, switch to using rapeseed (canola) oil, make sure you get some fibre, drink plenty of water and exercise once in a while. There's also no problem in treating yourself every now and then so don't feel bad about it. To both completely remove the shackles of faux-nutritionists and parody the superfood ideal, I've used blueberries in my version of a shortbread tart (and topped them with clotted cream). You could alternatively make biscuits out of this recipe by rolling the dough and baking it on a flat tray. Either way I hope you enjoy this. Bon appetit!
Ingredients
150g plain flour
25g rice flour
50g sugar
100g good quality butter
100g of blueberry jam
50g of clotted cream
a few blueberries to decorate
Method
Mix the two flours, the sugar and the butter in a bowl by hand. You want to form the ingredients into a dough that just about sticks together (hence the term short). If it's not quite right you can use a splash of water or milk to get it there. Refrigerate the dough for half an hour before diving into equal sized balls. Grease a muffin tin and place one ball in each mould (should make about 12) before pressing down in the centre and working to the sides of the muffin tin (so you have a hollow muffin base shape out of the dough). Bake until golden at 180-200C making sure to prick the bases with a fork every 3 or so minutes to stop the dough from expanding. Cool on a wire rack before filling each shortbread base with a tablespoon of super-duper blueberry jam and a teaspoon of clotted cream. You could use any other kind of jam if you aren't convinced by the muscles of the humble blueberry - I think apricot is pretty damn delicious. Make yourself a pot of tea and have some fun.
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4 comments:
These look and sound delicious! Clotted cream is a wonderful treat that I can't find very often in the U.S. Love the shortbread cups- great idea!
Blueberries and clotted cream? Hmm sounds interesting, would never have put them together. I'm more old school like strawberzzzzzz and stuff.
I love clotted cream. I was going to make this with honey but it definitely needed fruit to lift it. The shortbread cups are hard to keep even and flat but I thought it was worth it in the end. Needs a few adjustments. Maybe you could try making clotted cream at home? http://www.greenchronicle.com/connies_cornish_kitchen/clotted_cream.htm that's a challenge if I ever saw one.
Making clotted cream at home is easy but time consuming. I poured 4 cups of 35% cream into a shallow rectangular glass baking dish and put it into a 180 degree oven for 10 hours. Once it cooled on the counter for about 90 minutes I popped it in the fridge overnight. This morning I scooped off the lovely thick cream and put it in a mason jar - I ended up with about 2 cups worth. The leftover cream I put in another mason jar and will use it for baking.
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