[Sca-cooks] Period Flour Query and shortbread

[Johnna Holloway]

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