217 short recipes

The 2nd place winner in the Chicago Tribune's 1996 Annual Holiday Cookie Contest, a simple brown-sugar shortbread from Sandra Petrille of Naperville, Illinois.

A basic pie crust that can easily be made with this simple recipe. Perfect for holidays like Thanksgiving and Christmas!

My husband's baseball team prefers these cookies to chocolate chip..... if I make anything else, I have to have Alabama's too!

Treat your family with these scrumptious cookies are easy to make and easy to enjoy!

A senior winner in the 1953 Pillsbury Bakeoff.

Shortbread-like biscuits -- This recipe was given to my Great Aunt when she lived in Scotland, by a friend who worked in a bakery in Leven Fife. It is based on the standard short bread recipe.

This recipe is a tradition in my husband's Swedish family. It makes enough cookies to feed the Swedish Army.

Fruit Biscuits recipe

Butterfinger Cookies recipe

Baking Powder Drop Biscuits recipe