Nanny Piggins Shortbread Cookies — Police Sergeant Mood Enhancer

Nanny Piggins and the Police Sergeant have a long-standing relationship with each other, which consists of him eating her shortbread cookies and generally not arresting her for her crimes, and her driving his police car around

(Excerpt from R.A. Spratt's Website)
Obviously bribing a police officer is wrong. But if your local Police Sergeant loves freshly baked short bread cookies as much as mine does, then I advise you to have a batch of these ready at all times. It’s not so much a bribe as a mood enhancer. Experience has taught me that nothing makes the Police Sergeant forget what he is cross about as quickly as a mouthful of shortbread.

Ingredients:

 * 175 grams of butter
 * 110 grams of caster sugar
 * 200 grams of plain flour
 * 25 grams of semolina flour
 * a little caster sugar for dusting

Method
Happy Christmas and Happy Baking Nanny Piggins
 * 1) Preheat the oven to 150°C
 * 2) Lay a sheet of baking paper on a cookie tray.
 * 3) Beat the butter and sugar together with a wooden spoon.
 * 4) Add the flour and semolina flour and keep beating.
 * 5) Then abandon the spoon and knead with your hands until you have a dough. (Don’t be afraid to get messy. It will be fun to lick off later).
 * 6) Sprinkle some caster sugar on the bench then roll out the dough.
 * 7) Cut out shapes using festive cookie cutters (or you can use letter shapes if you need to send someone a rude message).
 * 8) Then lay your shapes out on the cookie tray. Use a fork to prick the shortbread shapes in the middle or they will rise up while baking.
 * 9) Bake in the oven 25 to 30 minutes, or until they start to go brown around the edges
 * 10) ∂ Remove your cookies from the oven, lay them out on a cooling rack and dust them with caster sugar for extra crunchiness. Eat and enjoy, and share with any law enforcement officer who has just kicked in your door.