Cheap VS Expensive Millionaire's Shortbread
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- Опубликовано: 30 июн 2024
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Ingredients list:
For the shortbread
250g plain flour
75g caster sugar
175g butter, softened
Caramel layer
100g butter or margarine
100g light muscovado sugar
397g can condensed milk
Chocolate topping
200g plain or milk chocolate, broken into pieces
Millionaire’s Shortbread Recipe
Preheat the oven to 180C/160C fan (350C fan) and grease or line a 20-22cm baking tray.
Mix together the sieved flour and sugar in a bowl, then rub in the butter for that “nee” feel! Knead the mixture together until it forms a dough then push it into the bottom of your baking tray - it doesn’t matter if there are a few indentations from your fingers as it’ll all get masked by the next delicious layer! Now pop that into the preheated oven for 20 minutes.
The next step is the caramel, so put your remaining butter into a pan with the can of condensed milk and sugar. Here I had to put light brown sugar into the cheap up against muscovado on the steep as I didn’t have another option, so I can confirm that both work well! Stir this continuously over the heat until everything is all dissolved together, then turn down the heat to low and continue stirring for 5-10 minutes until it is thickened and it has a lovely caramel colour.
Now you can pour the caramel over the shortbread which should be nicely cooled in the tin. Let this cool to room temperature before putting it into the fridge to cool and set.
The final layer is milk chocolate on the top. Melt the broken up chocolate or chocolate chips in a bowl over a pan of hot water. Pour this over the cold caramel and leave to cool and set again.
Once it’s fully set, cut into squares and enjoy!
00:00 Intro
01:09 Shortbread Recipe
04:14 Caramel Layer
07:06 Chocolate Layer
08:30 Cheap vs Steep Millionaires Shortbread
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Before you watch the video, which one do you think will win?!
If you want to see more cheap vs steep videos, I have a whole playlist here: ruclips.net/p/PLfItiEY3o1mum1ngUXhQ5b3rmTZu_ZHXC
Steep! Love this series mate!😊😊😊❤❤❤
Steep x
I love you do the blind folds now. I feel like when you know you may want to pick one over the other subconsciously. The blind folds is a great way to do it to see what you really like without knowing which is which!
Cheap
the irony that 1.69 flour is steep cracks me up... our cheap for 1 kilo is $1-2 at walmart and steep can go as high as $20!! at wholefoods
I remember you made a giant millionaire's shortbread before as a surprise for Mrs Barry. 😊 she must really love that dessert..😂
haha yep!
What I would suggest during the taste test is to clense your pallet between the two options. This way you approach both from a fresh taste. The sugar and such from the first one might have slightly skewed your perceptions a bit.
I was thinking of that, maybe drinking a sip of water between the two.
Also Mrs. B had a pretty large piece of the cheap before trying the steep. A piece the quarter of that size would have been better.
I expected the steep chocolate to taste better. But maybe because the chocolate was such a thin layer and there was such an overload of sugar in the bar, it didn’t come through. I can tell the difference between really good chocolate and cheap chocolate. Even with milk chocolate - I’ve ended up buying only one brand of milk chocolate chips because all the rest taste too sweet and less deeply chocolate.
From a Yorkshire girl you two DEFINITELY have West Country accents - though Mrs B’s is a bit stronger. Is such a lovely accent to listen to! 😊
I love the way she says chocolate.
See I dont think they do. I used to work in the town they live in and know it like the back of my hand, and have friends who live there. Id say Mrs B is more SE twang to hers, Barry's is more strong. The girls defo have a stronger one though
@@sadietrent804I agree, they both have fairly mild Bristol accents though Barry's is stronger IMO Mrs B's accent sounds more neutral a lot of the time but the Bristol seems to burst out occasionally 😂
As someone who is deaf and lip reads, you definitely have an accent (I can vaguely remember what you sound like before I lost my hearing) but you have an accent easier to lip read compared to many West Country accents! But I’m very grateful for the subtitles all the same
That's good to know!
O_O i never knew lip readers could read accents! that's awesome!
@@pinbi7Me either, that is very surprising to me.
Are you blind too? There’s subtitles option so you can read what he’s saying, cut some of the hassle out for yourself
The best millionaires shortbread slice was the one given in school lunches served with pink custard. Likely made with the cheapest of cheap ingredients. I can still remember the taste 40 years later. Best 17p ever spent (or 2p if the custard completely covered the slice making it look like you only had custard to the cashier)
STB I remember Pink custard. Yeah I also did that 40yrs ago up North and yeah I can still recall the taste!
Reminds me of a Twix candy bar! They’re shortbread with caramel and chocolate dipped, who knew that Twix were mini millionaires shortbread all along
just made it a few days ago, I would not say it is close, the shortbread tastes very different to biscuit in Twix. But have to admin, it's been a while since I've had one.
Nah, theyre quite different. I dont like Twix but millionaires shortbread is in my top 5
I do like Twix but I'm not a big fan of millionaires shortbread haha
From across the pond here, your accent is lovely....music to my ears.
Thanks! I remember when I spent some time over the pond, there were some friends I made who just asked me to talk all the time as they liked hearing how I said things like 'water bottle' lol
You have an accent, I can assure you. I use to live in Bristol with my then husband and, as a Londoner, everyone used to tell me that they loved my accent and swore blind that they didn't have one. I have cousins who grew up in Weston-Super-Mare and they speak just like you. It's endearing and nostalgic for me to hear.
I think Mrs B has doubly so 🙂
If you don’t like mixing butter and flour by hand just throw it in the food processor. Just make sure the butter is cold, I freeze it, so the friction doesn’t melt it.
You should make scotcheroos. Theres rice cereal mixed with peanut butter, melted butter and corn syrup on the bottom. And butterscotch chocolate chips and semisweet chocolate chips melted and poured on top.
Crikey that sounds nice! I love how everyday I find out about a new recipe from someone on here, it's pretty cool.
@@mrbarrylewisits a staple in the midwest of the US.
So glad to see Cheap vs Steep having a comeback! :) Such a great episode too! :)
I see a lot of steep ingredients were organic- but not all. It would be an interesting series of organic vs non organic, especially with baked goods. I find using organic butter, eggs and sugars and milk gives things a better flavor( not so processed or over sugary taste).
Really enjoyed this video, didn’t realize how easy shortbread was to make!
Thanks
Honestly, I think that's a pretty belter idea
Good eggs from pasture-raised chickens really do taste better than factory eggs. I rarely can get local farm eggs but when I do, they are wonderful!
I notice the taste difference with cream cheese more than other ingredients and was surprised at the difference.
That idea gets my Seal (by ah yaaa) of approval
Yes, you both have West Country/Bristol accents, especially Mrs. B :) (for context, I'm from the home counties). Somerset accents are lovely so its not a bad thing.
Millionaire shorts is the best full stop. Nice work mate
But is it millionaire or millionaire's we weren't really sure, I guess one is for the plural?!
Gotta love that you’re doing the comparison and outro and all that while Mrs. B gets rid of all the leftovers. (That’s what I would be doing too!)
"Do you think we have accents?"
*says I don't in the most west country way possible* 2:40
Oh Mrs B..... You have a VERY strong Westcountry accent! More than Barry for sure.
Also known as “Caramel Slice” in Australia!
Yay, another cheap vs steep! I was wondering when you'd make another one and here it is! I also love millionaire's shortbread, yummy. Nice work Mr & Mrs B ❤❤🎉🎉
Love a Cheap vs Steep with Mrs B! 🥰
There's only one way to make condensed milk. There's a good chance the two even came from the same factory.
Thank you for doing these recipes! Im on a tight restricted budget for the autumn and I still want to eat treats when I'm working, will definitely be trying these out x
My life's work has been to find the best millionaire shortbread 😂. My friends and I made some at school years ago and got in trouble for eating it all at break time. I'm just chasing that memory, the ratios were perfect. I've come close but my search continues.
That Homer Simpson cardboard cutout is so frigging iconic! It’s like your own signature for your videos 😆
This was fun to watch while eating my lunch. Now I want Millionaires Shortbread. Thanks Barry and Mrs. B!
My mum made when we were kids & I loved it 😊 cheap I would go for & thanks Barry n Mrs B 😋👍
I love the cheap vs steep videos. I would love to see you guys make your perfect recipe, using the products that you think make the difference and see if you were right!
So glad you did the blind folds again! Love that! 😁👍
I really love this series! It shows that if you shop sensible you can make something with cheaper ingredients that is just as good as something expensive. Beat the cost of living crisis by being sensible with shopping
Beat the cost of living by not spending money on cakes
Just a tip, for most recipes that call for you to incorporate the butter into the flour like that you can use a food processor to incorporate it instead.
Millionaires shortbread is so good, one of the best treats ever and I love me a good cheap vs steep video!
Hi Barry love the cheap vs steep series, I would like to see something like a Sunday roast, thinking roast beef and all the trimmings. Keep up the great content
Ethan Chlebowski's video about testing tinned tomatoes also mentioned Calcium Chloride ('a firming agent common in tinned vegetables'), and his conclusion was it did have an adverse affect on the blind taste test.
This one is amazing! Hoping that more of these end up with cheap winning, or at least really giving steep a good challenge.
You know what is sad.. your steep prices are my regular prices in Canada (British Columbia) our prices just keep going up! It isn’t right!.. I would like either of those bars! Love watching the two of you! 😃 and your kids are great too!
i made a millionaires shortbread for thanksgiving once and it was a smash hit! One of my favorite deserts ever.
LOVE this series barry! You amd mrs B make it so amazing!🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉❤❤❤❤
thanks
@@mrbarrylewisAlways🎉🎉🎉🎉
"Do we have an accent?" Accents are things that other people have. To me, you have a very distinctive accent, which is one of several particular British accents. To you, my "neutral" pronunciation would seem like one of several particular American accents.
Love how Mrs B`s accent come out when she says `i can`t believe that`.
Really enjoy the cheap versus steep series, loving your work as always! Probably just biased by the name but I really thought steep would be the runaway winner.. maybe because i just assume luxury and indulgence with this and that rings steep alarm bells to me (rightly or wrongly, don't know). Definitely one to try for myself I think!
Love the cheap vs steep series
Perfect timing. I was looking for a shortbread recipe when this popped up
Ha!! I JUST made a batch. I used my go-to recipe which is definitely cheap. I buy off label condensed milk which is a third of the cost of Eagle Brand (Canada). I make them often and they’re always a massive crowd pleaser. Going to a dinner and game night at a friend’s tonight and added white chocolate blobs on the chocolate, dragged a toothpick through them and voila! Valentine’s hearts!
For that "meeh" working butter into the flour step, I remember my grandma would just use a table knife and work/cut the butter into the flour that way. A bit slower compared to that kitchen gadget you have, but worked pretty well and kept hands from getting all buttery.
I usually just melt the butter first, let it cool a little and then mix it in 😅
That knife method is what my mum does as well! She did get one of those gadgets too, though 😅
Fascinating!
Outrageous!
Great video! Try melting the chocolate in the microwave is much easier and you don’t add moist to the chocolate.
Love cheap vs steep
You so do have accents, that west country dynamic is loud and proud!
I love the Gold butter too
Yes, you definitely have accents. I enjoy listening to you two.😊
Fun vid. Thanks
Nice t-shirt. If your coming to Barbados bring some millionaire shortbread with you. A bar of 100g Cadbury milk chocolate is around £5. Butter is £4 for 8oz etc
I'd eat either!!! Nice cuppa and I'm all set.
Yes you do have an accent the way you say pasta always makes me smile
"Oi don't think so," she says. Both hilarious and sweet that you don't know you have Wrest country accents.
Both Millionaire Shortbreads looked lovely, I'd eat either.
I don't notice an accent except for the odd word but nothing wrong with a West Country accent, much better than mine😅.
Love a Barry/Mrs B recipe.
Mrs B has a very West Country accent and Barry, certain words or phrases you say sometimes are also very West Country, nice 😊 👌🏼❤️
Becky is the real winner. She gets twice as much millionaires shortbread.❤
About the Butter and where it's made. If you look at the packaging there is a code on it that refers to the factory it was made in. I found this out on a programme on channel 4, by the Food Unwrapped team called Supermarkets Unwrapped. They showed us these codes on the programme, when they compared Aldi's Cart Wheels and Wagon Wheels, both made by Burton's Biscuits. This code is supposedly on all packaging.
We call this caramel slice in Australia. Love the name changes in different countries.
I use that cheap chocolate when I make Mrs B's brownies, there stonking ❤
Barry, I'm from Manchester and when you say 'HAFF' instead of 'HALF' it breaks my brain 🤣
Mmm youve inspired me to make one! 😋😍
I’d love to see this series do a meatloaf, or sausage roll. Or you haven’t done any with seafood as the main ingredient, so maybe a lobster bisque or something?
the butter and chocolate are where it pays to splurge. maybe pastured eggs, if texture and lift are important
Barry if you are doing blind try you should use 3 pieces to compare. 2 steep and one cheap or the other way. Then ask if someone can spot the difference.
Love he videos
How about same shop basic and premium ranges?
Think you need to do a cheap and steap cupboard and do some recipes from the store cupboard
Lots of things come in what seems like strange package sizes because lots of homemaking ingredients are still being sold in imperial sizes but they are required to mark them in metric
Nicely Done, too much for the steep😳!
I like this game!
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I was thinking as i was watching may be an idea to do blindfolds and you went and did it. makes it more fair as you have no bias
Barry when I make shortbread I sometimes use a handheld electric mixer to not dirty my hands, you could try that next time.
Excellent video, really surprised by the results.
Hey Barry, not sure if you clarify later or if someone beat me to it but table salt is sodium chloride, calcium chloride isnthe calcium version.
I believe it is commonly used in fruit and veg applications as a preservative, like keeping pickles from softening (see Pickle Crisp) or as an anti-browning agent in fruit (presumably stuff like tinned pears and such).
I remember when I was a kid that the biscuit base was made from a kind of buttery Digestive biscuit, not the crumbly shortbread base that is used nowadays. It's still good, but not as good as the Digestive base. It was just perfect with the caramel and chocolate.
I honestly thought the steep would win hands down due to the higher chocolate content they both look super delicious
im with you barry i hate rubbing butter and flour together
Could you please taste-test the single components as you go? I'd love to see your reaction to the difference between edible ingredients, and how that influences what you think will taste best?
I'm with Mrs B- I LOVE millionaire shortbread! I've got a hankering for it now 😂
Without watching - I think steep might win this one!
The sweetness generally overwhelms , so we would pick up the small differences . Premium products have a number of factors behind the price such as the additives , source, production method, etc. For the most part the general person wouldn't notice unless aware of the difference from the start . Most people are also used to the cheaper more accessible products , so tend to favour them . At the end of the day , it just comes down to what you budget and conscience allow/prefer.
How do you not know that Mrs. Barry loves millionaire's shortbread? I know (from your videos) that Mrs. B. loves millionaire's shortbread.
Condensed milk cans were always 14oz in old money so that's 397g today hence the exact number
Im from a few miles down the road from you, a few towns over, I dont have an accent either and I was born in Bridgwater the town where I live and where you've done giant videos before
My favourite millionaires shortbread is made with a raspberry caramel. I may have just started making a batch when I saw this video
I think both of the butters should have been salted or unsalted as that can make a difference to the taste
We call this caramel slice in Australia 😋😋
If I was a millionaire, it's the last thing I'd buy. Probably a house would be top of the list!
In Australia we just call that a "caramel slice". We're fancy over here, haha.
I was going to say the same thing lol, I'm in New Zealand and we call it caramel slice as well.
When you made the giant millionaire's shortbread, I believe you said something about Mrs Barry absolutely loving it :P. haha.
This is the first time I get Pam en Jim vibes from you! Lovely to see you doing this as a loving couple
Homer in the background as a Michael Scott stand in 😂
Boston The pug can be Michael I’ve decided and Dwight is Homer ha 😂
Chocolate prices differ a great deal but the taste is also insanely different. Cheap chocolate is mostly just sugar with barely any cocoa powder or butter. As a Belgian, I can easily tell the difference between cheap & more expensive chocolate to the point where I never eat cheap chocolate anymore.
quality chocolate, quality vanilla cost more but are worth it IMO.
At my store in the US, condensed milk is cheap>$1.86/steep>$2.58! Your groceries are SO CHEAP!! 😮
Great result. Have you tried a A B A blind test, so give one of them again and see if they can pick out the different one?
Whum poun... free poun.... Cho- kluht.. yeah I fink it's an accent .... as a total outsider it's lovely to listen to ❤ but I haven't the knowledge to say it's this one or that one. I love all accents ❤
You do have slight accents but probably because I'm from Devon I pick up on it more. Xx
Great comparison. Cheap for me. You both have slight accents, rather charming.
I suspect the muscovado sugar would have made a difference..I find its a bit more earthy in flavour. Im insanely curious as to what this would take like with miso paste, like the miso chocolate brownie. Fabulous brownie, oddly taste even better when refrigerated.
You don't have an accent but Mrs B definitely does
Everyone has an accent Barry when compared to someone else from a different place
Colorado is known for having a very mild accent but even we don’t pronounce the letter T in the middle of words we replace it with D or just leave it out entirely, so water becomes wader
Mountain becomes moun-n