Sicilian Lemon All Butter Shortbread

Read the list of ingredients, goes the saying, and if you don’t recognise some of them or they sound like they ought to be part of a chemistry experiment, don’t eat it.

Read the back of a packet of our organic Sicilian Lemon Shortbread and you might actually miss the ingredients list. It’s that small.

The basic ingredients for all our Shortbreads are the same: organic flour, organic sugar and organic British butter from farms where the cattle spend plenty of time outside happily grazing grass.

For our Sicilian Lemon All Butter Shortbread, we add crystallised organic lemon zest from Sicily – home to the most fragrant lemons.

The flour is made from organic wheat, much of it grown at Home Farm, while the sugar is raw and unprocessed. The butter, meanwhile, is organic British butter from farms where the cattle spend plenty of time outside grazing grass.

It all ends up in the village of Aberlour, by the River Spey, where the famous shortbread maker, Walkers, bakes over 15 kinds of biscuits for us. Like so many of our suppliers and partners, the company is a family firm – still run by a Walker over a hundred years after its founding.

Amid all this simplicity, only one mystery remains: why is it called shortbread?

Well, it means bread that’s easily broken, something that’s apparent when you bite into one of our deliciously crumbly biscuits, safe in the knowledge that there’s nothing but wholesome goodness in your food.