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---------- Recipe via Meal-Master (tm) v8.05
Title: Teatime Shortbread
Categories: Cookies
Yield: 1 servings
3/4 c Unsalted butter; room temp
1/2 c Sugar
1 3/4 c All-purpose flour
1 pn Salt
Preheat oven to 325. Using electric mixer, beat butter and sugar in bowl
until well combined. Sift flour and salt into butter mixture. Using
fingertips rub mixture until moist clumps form. Gently knead until soft
dough forms. Divide dough in half. Press out 1 dough piece to 9.5" round,
about 1/4" thick. Roll lightly with rolling pin to smooth top. Using 3"
diameter cookie cutter, cut out in 8 cookies. Reserve scraps. Repat
pressing, rolling and cutting with remaining dough piece. Gather dough
scraps together. Press out dough scraps to form round and cut out
additional cookies.
Arrange cookies on 2 large baking sheets. Pierce each cookie several
times with fork. Bake until pale golden, about 12 minutes. Cool slightly.
Transfer cookies to racks;cool completely.
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