Recipe - Bainbridge Butterscotch Shortbread

1 cup Unsalted butter
One half cup Dark brown sugar
2 cup Flour
One half teaspoon Baking powder
One fourth teaspoon Salt
1 cup Finely chopped walnuts or
pecans

Sift the flour, salt, and baking powder together and set aside. Cream the
butter until soft and gradually add the sugar. Add the flour mixture a
little at a time and mix well. Refrigerate for one hour. Divide the dough
in half and keep one portion in the refrigerator while rolling out the
other to approximately 1/4" thickness. (The dough gets soft quickly.)
Sprinkle the dough with the nuts and gently press them in with the rolling
pin. Cut into 11/2" squares. Pix uses a paper pattern as she is hopeless
at estimating things like this, unlike Faith. Prick with a fork and place
the squares on an ungreased cookie sheet. Repeat with the rest of the
dough. Bake until golden brown, approximately 15 minutes in a preheated
350F oven. Makes 6 dozen squares. This is a devostatingly rich, crumbly
cookie.
Posted to MCRecipe Digest V1 #191

Date: Sat, 10 Aug 1996 08:34:45 0700 (PDT)

From: PatH phannema@wizard.ucr.edu
NOTES : Body in the Basement: A Faith Fairchild Mystery. Pix Miller,
Faith's=
Neighbor. They live in Maine.