Shortbread Production

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Shortbread Production
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What is it?

• A Kind of Biscuit (Cookie)
• Has a crumbly Texture
• Sweet and buttery
• Made in Scotland!!!

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Made From

• White Sugar
• Butter
• Flour

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History

• Originally made with
• oatmeal
• Walkers shortbread are Scotland's largest food
  exporter
• In Swedish, it is known as Dreams

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Walkers Shortbread Ltd.

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Located in a small village called Aberlour
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Part 1 of Production

• Ingredients brought in by truck and stored in
  large Vats

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• When required, the correct amount of each
  ingredient is released from vats onto a
• conveyor belt

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• This transports them to the mixing machines
• They are
• mixed
• together
• in large
• mixing
• machines.

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• When the dough is completely mixed together, it
  is released, and placed in moulds

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• The moulds are stacked together on trays.
• These trays are transported (by forklift truck)
  to the ovens.

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• The ovens used are large tunnel/belt ovens
  ensuring an even cooking time for all shortbread.
  

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• After completion, the biscuits are taken out and
  left to cool for an hour in a clean chilled
• room.

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• The cooled shortbread is then placed on conveyor
  belts

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• These conveyors transport the shortbread through
  to a different room where people place them into
  plastic trays (usually PVC, PP, PET or thin
  acrylic)
• Trays are then placed
• on another conveyor belt

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• Plastic covers are used to seal the trays and
  keep the products fresh
• Trays are placed
• in decorated
• boxes

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• Boxes are stacked on a pallet
• Pallets are transported to the wrapping machines
• Pallets are then wrapped in cling film to ensure
  stability and security of products

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• Pallets loaded into lorry and dispatched

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Some of the products
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As well as shortbread...

• Walkers also make
• Cakes (fruit, chocolate etc)
• Oatcakes (savoury biscuits)
• Meringues
• Christmas specials
• Weight Watcher cakes
• (as most of Scotland is
• officially fat).

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Other stuff

• The company has received three Queen's Awards for
  Export Achievement, "the highest accolade given
  to British exporters."
• Still owned by the Walkers family (they are the
  only people who can afford Ferraris and Range
  Rovers in our area!)

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And that is all!

• Thanks for listening.