Gluten-free shortbread

Here's a really good recipe for shortbread I found on the Internet some time ago. I'm quite surprised at how many things people stick in shortbread, but I really love the original, butter, flour and sugar version.

The ingredients are:

2 cups of rice flour
1 cup of corn starch
1 cup of sugar
1.5 cups of butter

Sieve the flour, starch and sugar together and then mix in the butter by hand. When you have a soft dough you just shape it. Some people make balls and then flatten them to make cookies, others use molds... I tend to stick it all in a baking tray -that's in, not on- and use a knife to make lines along the dough, making shortbread fingers. Preheat the oven and then bake it at about 290ºC - it should take about 20 minutes, but you can tell when it's ready from the colour - browned, but not too much.

I sometimes also sprinkle some sugar over the top while it's still warm - just because :)

Enjoy!

Candy Tree lemon lollipops

I must say I have never particularly liked lemon, and these lemon lollipops are really pure lemon - gluten-free, lactose-free and additive-free. Nothing to take away the taste of lemon enough to give you the impression you're not eating some solid, slightly diluted, pure lemon juice. But eventually I got used to them, and it's always good to have something which doesn't melt (well... doesn't melt as much as chocolate!) in the Seville summer heat...

But in spite of me being more of an orange-person (or a cheese & onion person, at that!), I think I would actually recommend these. The only thing is that the small local shop we got these from is closing down :(, so I don't really know whether I'll be able to get a hold of any more after (plus, the webpage isn't of much use...)