It's officially Burns Night tonight, which means quite a few of Scots will be tucking into a traditional supper of haggis, neeps and tatties.Since we already indulged ourselves in a haggis supper the other night, we decided to tuck into another Scottish treat that might be making the rounds after dinner tonight - shortbread.It may be but a simply biscuit, but we certainly have a fond place in our hearts for a good piece of shortbread.While there are certainly hundreds of variations on supermarket shelves, we firmly believe that the best shortbread should be buttery and flaky with a dusting of sugar on-top.In fact, we think any biscuit that doesn't meet those requirements shouldn't be allowed to call themselves shortbread - but, that's just us.
Because shortbread biscuits are so popular at this time of year, it can be tempting to pick up any store bought brand while you hope not to be disappointed.
That's why we set our reporter Rachel Williams to put four shortbread biscuits to a blind taste test to officially crown which was the ultimate shortbread biscuit.
We put four different supermarkets - Lidl, M&S, Farmfoods and Sainsbury's - up to the test to see how they fare and if they were worthy of being dunked into our cup of tea.This is how Rachel got on...There are so many popular shortbread biscuits out there these days which promise 'traditional Scottish shortbread', which ultimately made the amount of options a lot greater.
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