Look at my petticoat tailes (Walkers Petticoat Tails Shortbread)

Member Name: mumsymary

Product:	Walkers Petticoat Tails Shortbread
Date:	09/10/08 (169 review reads)
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Advantages: really tastyand attractive

Disadvantages: none really

Walkers make many shapes and varieties of shortbread a traditional one is petticoat tails. The walker's petticoat tails shortbread round weighs 150 g. There are 6 segments in this circular biscuit.

Petticoat tails shortbread is a circular shortbread which has a crimped design around the edge of the circle, then little indentations like it has s been stabbed with a fork all over. Then there are indentations that divide this large circular biscuit into 6 segments sections. These indentations make breaking the shortbread into triangles easy. The triangles are about the right size for one serving. . A light sprinkling of sugar over the golden brown biscuit is attractive
The petticoat tails biscuit is attractive displayed on a plate before it has been broken up.
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Walkers make an especially fine shortbread biscuit. The flavor very buttery, it is a delicate crumbly biscuit. Keep it in an airtight container to keep it from going soggy.
There are 520kcal in 100g so that makes each segment contain about120 kcal. Shortbread is a traditional biscuit often eaten at Christmas and New Year.

Walkers have been making shortbread biscuits in Scotland since 1898 they certainly have got the recipe right. They are still a family firm selling shortbread worldwide.
Visit http://www.walkersshortbread.com/index.asp?cat=Hom e for info also to enter a competition to win some shortbread

Now I have often wondered where the name petticoat tails comes from. After some research it is suggested that the name might come from a corruption of the French petites gatelles ("little cakes"). Apparently Mary queen of Scots was partial to a buttery biscuit in the mid 1500's.
The name might come about as the shape of petticoat tails shortbread is not dissimilar to the bell-hoop petticoats of our own ancient Court ladies!
Where ever the name comes from this circular shaped biscuit is a good one.

Petticoat tails are great eaten with a cup of tea or you can serve them alongside a fruit salad or ice cream in fact they enhance many desserts

Summary: Traditional shortbread biscuit