random baking question: shortbread

[wisdomeagle]

So, self, self's father, and self's sis are about as undomestic as you come. We're trying to make shortbread and, err... we mixed together sugar and flour and butter in a bowl and now it's all, er, extremely crumbly? This is not a mixture that I would call "dough" per se. I would call it more "bowl of crumbs that taste something like shortbread

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[mari4212]

Shortbread dough should be crumbly. What you do when it reaches the crumbly stage is start squishing it together until it forms one lump, and then roll it out and cut it into shapes or just squares and circles. My family has a cool old rolling pin that has shapes cut into it that are really pretty with shortbread.

But yes, you have done it right.