What are Loran Doones. I have a recipe that calls for them, but what are they?!
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Answers: Lorna Doone Shortbread Cookies, to use the full and proper name, are store-bought square, white, shortbread-like cookies. They are not as buttery nor as crumbly as real shortbread. Real shortbread would certainly be a lovely substitute in the recipe in question.
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lORNA DOONE SPOON PUDDING
1 3/4 cups cold milk
1 pkg. (4-serving size) Jello Chocolate Flavor Instant Pudding & Pie Filling
24 Lorna Doone Shortbread Cookies
1 large banana, sliced
2 cups thawed Cool Whip
Pour milk into large bowl. Add pudding mix. Beat with wire whisk 2 minutes or until well blended. Let stand 5 minutes. Arrange 1/2 of the cookies on bottom and sides of the 1-1/2 quart serving bowl; cover with layers of 1/2 each of the pudding, bananas, and whipped topping. Repeat layers. Refrigerate at least 3 hours or until ready to serve. Makes 8 servings.
Lorna Doones are shortbread cookies and are soooooooo good!
Lorna Doone is the heroine of R.D. Blackmore's novel of the same name. Published in 1869, the historical romance set in southwest England tells the tale of John Ridd, a young farmer who clashes with the Doones, a Scottish family of murderers and outlaws based on real people.
No record exists as to the exact motivation behind the selection of that name for the shortbread cookies, but in those days when they were named, [1912], shortbread biscuits were considered a product of Scottish heritage, and the Lorna Doone character was popular and symbolic of Scotland.
In the time it takes you to go to the grocery store and find Lorna Doones (shortbread cookies), you could make this easy shortbread recipe, and have leftover cookies to munch, too:
These are addictive, so consider yourself warned :)
Shortbread:
INGREDIENTS
* 2 cups real butter, softened (no substitutes)
* 1 cup white sugar
* 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
* 4 cups all-purpose flour
DIRECTIONS
1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (180 degrees C).
2. Cream butter and sugar until fluffy. Stir in vanilla; add flour and mix well.
3. Put through cookie press and form cookies onto baking sheets. (Or you can just roll them in balls and slightly flatten them, but handle quickly or the butter will get too warm and they'll spread). Bake for 10 minutes. Cool one minute and transfer to wire rack.
Cookies, you should be able to get them at any supermarket.
They are a white shortbread cookie that are a press cookie (look like tiles). Nabisco makes them. If you can't find them at the store, use regular short bread. Its more crumbly than the Lorna Doones, but it works as well.
I found them at sam's club, just check the cookie aisle. I included a link, but those are individually wrapped and not needed for cooking...
FYI aparrantly no one knows why its called the Lorna Doones cookie: "The Lorna Doone shortbread cookie was introduced in 1912. No one, even at Nabisco, is quite sure of exactly how the name was chosen. All that can be said is that R.D. Blackmore, a British novelist, was the author of a popular book titled 'Lorna Doone,' the lead character, Lorna Doone of course, was of Scottish heritage, and shortbread was considered Scottish. Hence, a shortbread cookie named Lorna Doone." http://www.foodreference.com/html/vol_4_...
Pretty funny, huh
Lorna Doones are shortbread cookies that are sold at the market. . .They are very good!
delicious shortbread cookies
