Petticoat Tails
This is my Gran’s recipe and one of our family’s favorite cookies–a light shortbread cookie. They’re like potato chips–can’t eat just one!
- 1 cup soft butter
- 1 cup sifted powdered sugar
- 1 tsp flavoring–vanilla, almond, rose etc.
- 2.5 cups sifted white flour
- 1/4 tsp salt
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Cream butter, sugar and flavorings until well combined.
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Sift the flour and salt together and add to the creamed mixture.
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Mix the dough thoroughly, with your hands if necessary, until it is not crumbly. (This is a dry dough so the hand mixing is sometimes necessary.)
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Press and mold the dough into a long, smooth roll about 2 inches in diameter.
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Wrap in wax paper and chill until stiff – at least 2 hours or overnight if the wax paper is sealed well to prevent drying out.
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With a sharp knife, cut the log into thin slices (1 / 8 to 1 / 16 of an inch thick). Adjust baking time if you slice them thicker.
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Place the slices on an ungreased baking sheet–this is a good cookie for parchment paper!–and bake at 400º F for 8 – 10 minutes.
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Makes about 3 dozen two inch cookies. Easy recipe to double–but remember, they’re like potato chips!
