it starts with a pound of butter - chapter two

Butter 
  
       more and  more

                      Butter

Well, I had to try again, this is a recipe I have made for years. It is dated and signed...Z  1987.
So what did I do wrong? 
Shortbread Princess,...really she is the Queen of Shortbread,
           too much  flour.

So, I make them again.
      And they looked great.

    But I had to be sure

                    

You can't always tell with just one                             

Trying to imagine what might happen with a cup of coffee  .

Should I go there?

Did I go there?

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it starts with a pound of butter

Butter. there is nothing like it.
no not  margarine

.  no  not "looks like butter"...
            not "can't believe it 's not butter ".

          BECAUSE, I KNOW BETTER.
                           
                  BUTTER IS BUTTER AND
                       BUTTER IS BETTER  !

Then why is there something wrong with this picture ?
Why did I spend two hours mixing a pound of butter into sugar and flour and rolling the dough and cutting the heart shapes, 
only to have them crack and fall apart and then bake up harder than a rock ?

That is the question I have for my Scottish friend Zina. 
 She gave me the recipe, and I have made them many times.
They always turn out. My family loves them and that is why I am getting them ready for Easter weekend. 
 But Zina  is the expert and I am not. She will know. 
 Another pound of butter is on the counter, waiting  to to soften,
and I am off to Zina's !