[Sca-cooks] Period Flour Query and shortbread

Johnna Holloway johnna at sitka.engin.umich.edu
Sat Feb 10 14:55:18 PST 2007


Actually we know that shortbreads were being eaten in Scotland
in 1608. The Earl of Angus’s dated household accounts of 1608 record
that in one instance shortbreads were purchased; in another flour was 
sent out for their baking.

Geddes, Olive M. The Laird’s Kitchen. Three Hundred Years of Food in 
Scotland. Edinburgh: HMSO; The National Library of Scotland, 1994.

Johnnae







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