"songbird" > wrote in message
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> Lenona wrote:
>> On Friday, January 1, 2021 at 1:00:47 PM UTC-5, Doris Night wrote:
>>
>>> I think maybe the reason for this is in case the cookies are a bit
>>> crumbly. If the sheet is upside down, you can sort of "slide" the
>>> cookies off without having to bend them slightly, which you might do
>>> with a spatula if you were trying to get the cookies over the lip of
>>> the cookie sheet.
>>>
>>> I hope that wasn't too convoluted an explanation.
>>>
>>
>> Sounds right, thanks!
>
> strange to me, the shortbread cookies here are firm enough they
> won't bend, but they don't really stick much either that you'd
> need a spatula to remove them.

Mine are never crumbly. I did make snowballs this Christmas but some without
nuts. One of those without nuts did crumble. The ones with nuts did not.
Snowballs are a form of shortbread.