Grandma Connie's Shortbread

Shortbread cookies, just like grandma used to make. Okay, my grandmother never made these but I am sure some one's did. Flour, confectioner's sugar, and two sticks of butter mixed and rolled into a log and refrigerated for hour before being kneaded, rolled out and cut. Alice suggested using a round cookie cutter, but Julia and I used a pumpkin shape, 'tis the season after all. Baked for 20 minutes and cooled on a rack. Yes, she said to cool them on a rack. This makes me so proud of Alice, she's really come a long way since the "Marcia, Marcia, Marcia Muffins."

Episode Note: "You're Never Too Old"  A tour de force for Robert Reed and Florence Henderson, as they play their respective grand parents visiting from out of town. The episode must have been lobbied for by the make-up artist on the set, tired of only getting to tease Jan's wigs. Anyway, Mike and Carol go out of town and Mike's curmudgeon grandfather Hank, and Carol's fun loving grandmother, Connie, come to visit. At first, these two are like oil and water (when the lady met the fellow, it was way less than a hunch). But, the scheming children devise a plot to get the two oldies but goodies together, Hank loosening up and Connie taking things a bit more seriously. One wonders if this gave Robert Reed the compunction to go on to more dramatic roles, like Roots 2 (by a show of hands, who else was disturbed to see Mr Brady as a slave owner?) Anyway, of course the two old fogies become fond of one another and they elope to Vegas, making true that what happens at the Brady's, stays at the Brady's.