À l’occasion du shortbread day, le 6 janvier, le magazine I Love English propose aux 12-15 ans une version chocolat-caramel des traditionnels sablés écossais. Une recette maxi-gourmande pour se régaler à plusieurs… et découvrir de nouveaux mots de vocabulaire anglais !
Ingredients
• 250g flour*
• 75g caster* sugar
• 175g butter* cut* into cubes
• 100g butter
• 100g muscovado* sugar
• 400g sweetened* condensed milk
• 200g chocolate
Method*
1• Heat* the oven to 160°C. Grease* a baking* tray (20 cm x 20 cm) – it must be at least* 3 cm deep*.
2• To make the shortbread*: put the flour in a bowl with the butter cubes. Rub* together with your fingers (the mix* should have the texture of fine breadcrumbs*). Add* the caster sugar and stir*.
3• Form the mix into a dough* and press it into the base of the baking tray. Prick* the surface a few* times with a fork*. Bake* in the oven for 15 to 20 minutes until* slightly* golden. Leave* to cool in the tray.
4• To make the caramel: put the butter, muscovado sugar and condensed milk in a pan*. Heat* gently until the sugar dissolves*, stirring until boiling* point. Then, lower* the heat and stir for 5 to 10 minutes.
5• When the caramel mixture has thickened* a little, pour* it over the shortbread. Then leave to cool in the baking tray.
6• For the chocolate topping*: melt* the chocolate in a bain-marie. Pour it over the cooled* caramel and leave to set*. Now cut* the shortcake into squares.
****** Vocabulaire anglais ******
add: ajouter
bake in the oven: enfourner
baking tray: plat allant au four
boiling point: point d’ébullition
breadcrumbs: miettes de pain
butter: beurre
caster sucre: sucre semoule
cooled: refroidi
cut into cubes: découpé en dés
cut into squares: découper en carrés
deep: de profondeur
dissolve: se dissoudre
dough: pâte
few times (a): plusieurs fois
flour: farine
fork: fourchette
grease: beurrer
heat gently: chauffer doucement
heat the oven: mettre le four
least (at): au moins
leave to cool: laisser refroidir
lower the heat: baisser le feu
melt: faire fondre
method: préparation
mix: préparation
muscovado sugar: sucre de canne muscovado
pan: casserole
pour over: verser sur
prick: piquer
rub together: émietter
Scottish: écossais
set (leave to): laisser prendre
shortbread: sablé
slightly golden: légèrement doré
stir: remuer
sweetened condensed milk: lait concentré sucré
thickened a little: épaissi un peu
topping: nappage
until: jusqu’à ce que
