Shortbread or shortie is a traditional Scottish biscuit usually made from one part white sugar, two parts butter, and three to four parts plain wheat flour. Shortbread does not contain any leavening, such as baking powder or baking soda. Shortbread is widely associated with Christmas and Hogmanay festivities in Scotland, and some Scottish brands are exported around the world.
A shortbread round
Shortbread fingers and petticoat tails
Shortbread rounds being cut at a bakery. This dough has been flavoured, docked (poked with holes), and rolled to the correct thickness before being cut.
A biscuit, in most English speaking countries, is a flour-based baked and shaped food item. Biscuits are typically hard, flat, and unleavened. They are usually sweet and may be made with sugar, chocolate, icing, jam, ginger, or cinnamon. They can also be savoury, similar to crackers. Types of biscuit include sandwich biscuits, digestive biscuits, ginger biscuits, shortbread biscuits, chocolate chip cookies, chocolate-coated marshmallow treats, Anzac biscuits, biscotti, and speculaas.
An Oreo, a brand of sweet sandwich biscuit, and two crackers, a type of savoury biscuit
Biscuits of Ghana
Beaten biscuits (southern US)
Wheat and cream biscuits (northern England)
