Pecan Sandies, Shortbread, Sables, Crescents, Cookies

No one seems to be exactly sure what the difference is between these things, so I made a very basic dough and formed it in a few ways.

Local Ingredients
Daisy Organic Flours Pastry Flour
Butter
Livengood's Pecans

Ingredients:
1 C butter
3/4 C sugar (maple sugar would work but change the flavor slightly)
2 t vanilla
2 C flour
1 C pecans, finely ground
1 t salt (Maine sea salt available at Fair Foods)

Cream butter, sugar, and vanilla. Add flour, ground pecans and salt and blend well. At this point, you can refrigerate the dough to make it easier to work with. No matter how you shape them, bake at 375-400* x 10 minutes or until lightly brown on edges or bottom.

For shortbread: press dough into the bottom of a pie plate or cake pan about 1/4 inch thick. Press down with fork all over and cut into wedges. Bake. Cool slightly and break up into wedges.

For sandies/sables: shape into balls and press an additional pecan into the top. Bake.

For wedding cookies: shape into balls and bake. Cool slightly and dredge in powdered sugar.

For crescents: shape into crescents and bake. Dip in melted chocolate or serve plain.