Teatime Shortbread

Ingredients

100 gr butter
100 gr sugar
220 gr all purpose flour
1 gr salt

Instructions

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 24 cm round, about 1 cm thick. Roll lightly with rolling pin to smooth top. Using 8 cm 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 dozen minutes. Cool slightly. Transfer cookies to racks;cool completely. ----