Pronoun Trouble

I have no link, because I memorised it long ago, but here you are:

1.25 c | 150g All-purpose flour
.25 c | 48 g Granulated sugar
3 tbsp | 24g cornstarch
1 stick/8 tbsp | 112 g unsalted butter, softened

Preheat oven to 350 F. Mix dry ingredients together thoroughly. Add butter and work into dough. Press dough into shortbread mould or pan, and prick several times with a fork. Bake 30-50 min until golden. Remove from oven. Gently insert knife between shortbread and pan edge, set a wooden cutting board on top of the pan, and invert swiftly to remove shortbread from pan. Use a very sharp knife to cut into servings before fully cool, to prevent cracking.

Once you've built some familiarity, it's easy to come up with variations; you can start with simpler ones, like tossing pieces of fresh raspberries into the dough (do this after mixing, right before it goes into the pan, or your berries will turn to mush), and work up to more complex ones (like substituting .25c flour for cocoa and slightly increasing the sugar, to make chocolate shortbread).

Honestly, I make most of my variations 'by feel;' having made them for so many years, I know what the dough should feel like, so I don't really measure things so much as just, uh, do what I can tell needs to be done to make it the right texture/consistency.

If you like tart flavours, you should definitely try redcurrants! I found redcurrants in the northern US; they grow there, so there are some local sources. They do seem scarcer outside that area, but you can still sometimes find jam or juice in stores (check import markets, though regular grocers may have it in their higher-end jam selections, or 'health-food' juice offerings).

This whole post and thread made me go and eat a can of cranberry sauce, in addition to making shortbread. :D