Scotch Short Bread
- ½ lb butter
- ¾ cup confectioners sugar or ½ cup superfine cane sugar
- 2 cups flour, sifted
- pinch of salt
- Cream thoroughly first two ingredients.
- Add flour and salt.
- Knead dough as you would bread (20 min)
- Smooth in a 7½" x 11" x ¾" pan with the back of a spoon
- Prick with a fork and cut into pieces
- Bake at 300° for 45 minutes.