I heart butter: a tale of shortbread

Because, nothing says "healthy eater" like a stick of butter, some flour and sugar that is baked and then drizzeled with the liquid form of powdered sugar and lemon juice...

• 1 stick butter
• 1/2 cup flour
• 1/4 teaspoon vanilla
• 1/16 teaspoon salt
• 1/8th cup sugar
  

Combine ingred and mix, roll into a ball and place on clingwrap and flatten into a disk. Put in fridge for about 30 minutes and preheat oven to 250. put dough into a cake pan and flatten out. Put in oven for 30 minutes and then rotate and then bake another 30ish minutes. Put on cooling rack and cut into triangles while still warm (if it cools it will crumble when you try to cut it)
Lemon icing. 1/2 cup of confectioner's sugar and 3 teaspoons of fresh lemon juice. put in a small bowl and mix 1/2 teaspoon in with hang mixer. Drizzle on shortbread once cooled.


THIS is why you keep sticks of butter in the fridge, stockpiled as if you are expecting the Reds to drop a Nuc on you. I kept it in the fridge for over a week and had a slice at night with tea. It was comfort during the "cool" 3 week winter of Austin.

Butter is fantastic. What woman, because a man would give up churning long before it was butter or even heavy cream, ever took that milk and churned and churned just a bit too long and created butter is my hero. Even though I am on a "diet", I still pick up butter just incase I want to make some cookies or need to roast a chicken or might want to butter myself up for fantastic sex... waaaait