This recipe is adapted from a shortbread in my Simply Sensational Cookies cookbook. It can be shaped into finger-like bars, into wedges as shown. When shaped into wedges like those pictured, shortbread is traditionally called petticoat tails. How shortbread baked in a round and cut into wedges came to be named petticoat tails is a mystery. Some say it references the hoop skirts of early English court ladies; others think it’s a corruption of the French “petite galettes,”or little cakes. Choice one is more fanciful, so I'm leaning in that direction.