Title: Bainbridge Butterscotch Shortbread
Categories: Cookies
Yield: 36 Servings

1 c Unsalted butter
1/2 c Dark brown sugar
2 c Flour
1/2 ts Baking powder
1/4 ts Salt
1 c 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 1-1/2" 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 MC-Recipe Digest V1 #191

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

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