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Digestive cookies (or digestive biscuits) are the backbone of British baking (that’s what I read in a book). I was looking for a recipe with British origin in the Reader’s Digest Cookies book and found this one to be very simple to bake with ingredients easily available. I have not changed anything in the recipe and also don’t have anything to write in the My Notes section because it’s pretty straight forward. Just mixing dry ingredients and wet ingredients, forming a soft dough, rolling it out and cutting shapes with a cookie cutter. How difficult is this?

In my previous post I had written about how I miss few things in Canada and how I was a little disappointed. I think I have to take back my words now, because I have discovered few amazing things here. I’m sure I’m going to find more interesting stuff once I start exploring the place. Last week we had been to a mall and found a store called Bulk Barn. From where I was looking I was able to see only the name of the store in big letters and big packets of bird food. With the name and the bird food I thought it was some pet store where they were selling pet supplies in bulk and was thinking of skipping it. But I turned back again and marched towards the store and I’m so glad I did it or else I would have missed something very amazing. It’s a grocery store where supplies are sold in bulk and not in ready to go packs, so you can decide to buy how much you want. Also they have an unbelievable selection of specialty flours/grains, baking supplies, nuts, candies and many more. I felt like a kid in a candy store. I was able to find a lot of stuff which was not easily accessible to me in US as well.

Another exciting find was the community center in our area. It’s just 7 minutes walk from our home. It has a decent size library (not much in the cooking section but a lot of materials for my son) and also a fitness center with reasonable prices. There are a couple of parks and walking trails also nearby. I’m loving it here!

This recipe for eggless chocolate shortbread cookies is from a Martha Stewart book. I think it’s called “Cookies”. I noted it long time back so don’t remember it. These are basic beginner’s level cookies. These shortbread have a crumbly texture with a buttery smell and taste. I wanted to bake a big batch of cookies and a simple recipe. So this shortbread recipe fits the bill. The yield mentioned in the recipe was 3 dozen but I got 5 dozen cookies.