{"id":13875,"date":"2013-11-27T08:09:01","date_gmt":"2013-11-27T14:09:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/?p=13875"},"modified":"2013-11-27T09:43:22","modified_gmt":"2013-11-27T15:43:22","slug":"almond-shortbread","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/2013\/11\/almond-shortbread\/","title":{"rendered":"Almond shortbread"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Nov13\/AlmondShortbread4030.jpg\" target=\"Large\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Nov13\/AlmondShortbread4030.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>After I made the <a target=\"Pecan Pie Shortbread\"  href =\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/?p=13841\" title=\"Pecan Pie Shortbread\"> Pecan Pie Shortbread<\/a> &#8230;and by the way, it freezes beautifully &#8230;  I wanted to try a version with candied pecans.  I found a recipe for oven baked candied pecans that I thought would work.  Then I got to thinking about almonds.<\/p>\n<p>So, while not as pretty visually and I still don&#8217;t have a tart pan with pretty fluted edges &#8230; the almond version is VERY good.<\/p>\n<p>I modified <a target=\"Sue of The View from Great Island\u2019s Pecan Pie Shortbread\"  href =\"http:\/\/theviewfromgreatisland.com\/2013\/11\/pecan-pie-shortbread.html\" title=\" Sue of The View from Great Island\u2019s Pecan Pie Shortbread\"> Sue of The View from Great Island\u2019s Pecan Pie Shortbread <\/a> recipe by using 1\/4 tablespoon of almond extract and 3\/4 tablespoon of vanilla extract.  For the almond topping, froth 1 XL egg white, 2 tablespoons of sugar and 1 cup sliced or slivered almonds &#8211; spread on the shortbread before baking.  Per Sue&#8217;s recipe, I covered loosely with foil to keep the almonds from getting too brown, removing it for the last 10 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe next round some red and green sugar lightly sprinkled to give it a bit of a Christmas look.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Nov13\/AlmondShortbread4031.jpg\" target=\"Large\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Nov13\/AlmondShortbread4031.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>My kitchen helper this morning&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Nov13\/AlmondShortbread4034.jpg\" target=\"Large\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Nov13\/AlmondShortbread4034.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The last time he tried to use this chair as a jungle gym, it tipped over: crash, bang, boom and surprised Auggie!  He&#8217;s about 9 1\/2 pounds now and longer so the play chair has become the nap chair when I&#8217;m in the kitchen.  <\/p>\n<p>Happy Day before Thanksgiving and Hanukkah and safe travel to all on the move.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After I made the Pecan Pie Shortbread &#8230;and by the way, it freezes beautifully &#8230; I wanted to try a version with candied pecans. I found a recipe for oven baked candied pecans that I thought would work. Then I got to thinking about almonds. So, while not as pretty visually and I still don&#8217;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-auggie","category-food"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13875"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13875\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13879,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13875\/revisions\/13879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}