The story behind the cookies...

First batch - 1:30 PM. My sister is to blame. She gave me the wrong instructions, I know she did. Three times now, I have tried to use the recipe she gave me for the traditional shortbread cookies our family used to make every year around the holidays and each time, they've been dry and I've had to had another half cup of milk to get them to hold together. Even then, they only turn out if they are filled with fruit and stacked on top of each other. This time, same thing. It was a bust. They were grainy. Youngest daughter said, "they taste like crackers." Blah.

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