Pressed Shortbread “Machine Cookies”

I know you’ve been looking for a way to repurpose your countertop meat grinder into the multi-tool cookie press that it is—who hasn’t? These crank-pressed butter cookies, ciasteczka z maszynki, are much like other pressed shortbread cookies like those blue tin Danish butter cookies or the sort of whipped Italian shortbreads you can buy by the pound, but machine cookies are a bit crumblier and come in a flat-ribbed shape. This is one of the few places I suggest you go full-on old-school and