Grandma Margaret's Shortbread Cookies

4 c. flour
1 lb. butter or 1/2 butter and 1/2 margerine
1 cup sugar
1 tsp. almond flavoring

cream butter, add sugar, cream well together (with hands- this is how grandma did it), till light and fluffy. Add flavoring and flour.

Roll into a roll in wax paper(like you are making a long snake out of the dough.)
flatten top, and sides and bottom.
Cut into slices with dental floss, or thread, and bake at 300 for 30-40 minutes

Do not let them brown.

If you chill dough is easier to cut. use dental floss to cut, so you not smashing the cookie shape.