Preheat the oven at 340F or 170C for crunchy cookies.
Cream butter and sugar until 'sandy' looking.
Add the egg and emulsify.
Add the pandan, vanilla essence or any kind of essence or spices that you might want to use.
Fold in the flour and nuts, dried fruits or chocolate chips and milk.
Bake in the oven for 10 minutes (chewy) or when the cookies are slightly browned. Lower the temperature to 120C and bake a further 15 minutes for crunchy cookies.
Cool for 10 minutes and store in an airtight container.
You can make these sweet, salty, spicy (try nasi lemak, rendang or laksa versions!), bitter (try chocolate or coffee), sour (tamarind?), umami? Anything! Be amazed.