Submitted by Judith E. Smith, Pennsylvania
This is my Aunt Mary Jane’s shortbread cookie recipe. It’s simple, yet elegant.
My Aunt Mary Jane wasn’t rich or famous; in fact, she was very poor. She lived in an old, tiny house in Dallas, Pennsylvania, that was always immaculate, a house I was taken to as a small child to visit her in the 1960s. The first thing you would notice when you walked into her living room was a small table in the corner with a pure-white lacy cover loaded with small plates filled with cookies and other desserts, something that would rival any dessert cart in a fancy hotel….