Hi Jenny, Maisie and Ella In the matter of shortbread, my cousin Shona in Ayrshire recommended to us the use of Arrowroot, and lo and behold it worked fine too here in Pennsylvania. I have to think that such a fine recipe as a good Scottish shortbread will work with any of them!! I was delighted to see the BeRo recipe book mentioned again. That came up when Diana gave us a recipe for potato scones a few weeks ago. Good, very good, and in fact I had some for dinner tonight. But what the mention really did was to remind me of my mother's cooking when I was a kid. She also cooked with what my wife says is "al ojo del buen cubero" or translated (Anna is half Spanish) "with the eye of a good cooper" and that's a good eye indeed. However, when she (my mother, from Norfolk but living in Yorkshire) occasionally used a cookery book it was Be-Ro. So naturally I looked it up on the internet, and Be-Ro still exists, (in Northumberland) as does their cook book. So if you want one for old times sake (or presumably for some good recipes) it seems to be still available. Regards, Crawford.