Sweet Baked Goods Genuine Scottish Short-Bread

genuine scottish short-bread.
(from Godey's Ladies Magazine, edited by L.A. Godey, Sarah J. Hale, 1865)

Ingredients:

2 lbs. fine flour​

1 lb. fresh butter​

1/2 lb. fine sifted sugar​

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optionally top with caraway confections, and small pieces of orange peel​

Instructions:

Take two pounds fine flour, one pound fresh butter, half pound fine sifted sugar. Thoroughly knead these together without one drop of water (the prevailing mistake is to add more or less water), roll out the cake to half an inch in thickness, and place it over paper in a shallow tin, and fire slowly until of proper crispness . It is usual to insert in upper surface a few caraway confections and small pieces of orange peel. Good cake should be most brittle - Scotice, "short:" - hence its name.​