Shortbread Fingers

Name: Shortbread Fingers
Ingredients: 200g butter; ½ cup sugar; 2½ cups flour

What you need

Salt, pepper, water and oil don’t count. Mom always had those.

Rub everything together into a crumbly dough, press flat into a tin, prick all over with a fork, and bake slowly for forty minutes until pale gold.

Pricking the whole surface with a fork is oddly meditative and takes longer than you plan for.

Cut it into fingers while it's still hot but leave it in the tin to cool.

256 cards, every one five ingredients or fewer.

Oat and Raisin Cookies5 ingredients: 1 cup oats, 1 cup flour, ¾ cup sugar, 150g butter and raisins
Cocoa Cookies5 ingredients: 1½ cups flour, ¾ cup sugar, 150g butter, 4 spoons cocoa and 1 egg
Sesame Cookies4 ingredients: 2 cups flour, ¾ cup sugar, 150g butter and sesame seeds
Lemon Cookies5 ingredients: 2 cups flour, ¾ cup sugar, 150g butter, 1 lemon and 1 egg
Almond Cookies3 ingredients: 2 cups ground almonds, 1 cup sugar and 2 egg whites
Walnut Crescents4 ingredients: 2 cups flour, 200g butter, half cup sugar and walnuts