The Body In The Basement

2 cups flour

1/2 tsp. baking powder

Sift the flour, salt, and baking powder together and set aside. Cream the butter until soft and gradual y add the sugar. Add the flour mixture a little at a time and mix wel .

Refrigerate for one hour.

Divide the dough in half and keep one portion in the refrigerator while rol ing out the other to approximately 1/4"

thickness. (The dough gets soft quickly.) Sprinkle the dough with the nuts and gently press them in with the rol ing pin.

Cut into 11/2" squares. Pix uses a paper pattern as she is hopeless at estimating things like this, unlike Faith. Prick with a fork and place the squares on an ungreased cookie sheet. Repeat with the rest of the dough.

Bake until golden brown, approximately 15 minutes in a preheated 350° oven. Makes 6 dozen squares. This is a devastatingly rich, crumbly cookie.

FAITH FAIRCHILD'S MAINE

BLUEBERRY TARTE

Pastry:

1 1/2 cups flour

12 tbsps. unsalted butter 1

tbsp. sugar

3 tbsps. ice water

a pinch of salt

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