Books / Sullatober Dalton / The Colonels Ducks at Oakhaven / Welcome to Oakhaven

cooking for one, shortbread

Cooking for One, shortbread, mixers, – I wrote Welcome to Oakhaven to entertain my wife. Unfortunately, she died three years ago and before she taught me to cook. Which means I have had to learn to cook for one. She made all kinds of delectable dishes needing multiple pots, which I cleaned and which left me terrified of any recipe that needs more than two pots. My kind of recipe is the one she used for shortbread. You chuck everything into the bowl and switch on the mixer. Just don’t switch it on too fast or the ingredients explode and get thrown all over the kitchen, which is worse than cleaning multiple pots.