Scottish Shortbread Cookies - cooking recipe

Ingredients

6 c. flour
1 lb. butter
1 3/4 c. sugar
1 egg

Preparation

Mix flour and butter together with a pastry cutter until mixture looks like coarse sand.
Add sugar and egg.
Work dough with hands into four thick cakes (about 1/4th dough mixture in each).
Roll one cake out with a rolling pin, approximately 1/2 inch thick.
Cut cookies into squares or rectangles.
Place on ungreased cookie sheet.
Prick each cookie with a fork.
Bake at 300\u00b0 for 30 minutes.