Bread, Short

Ingredients

• one pound and a half of flour
• a quarter of a pound of candied orange and lemon-peel, cut small
• the same of sweet almonds, blanched and cut
• loaf sugar
• caraway comfits (some of the latter may be kept to strew over the top of the bread)
• a pound of butter
• half a pound more flour

Method

1. 1

   Dissolve butter and mix with flour quickly into a dough.

2. 2

   Shape into a round cake, divide into four parts, and pinch edges.

3. 3

   Strew caraway comfits on top and bake in a moderate oven for 25-30 minutes.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Cassell's dictionary of cookery (1892) by Cassell & Company, page 261. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Bread, Short. — To one pound and a half of flour add the following ingredients :— a quarter of a pound of candied orange and lemon- peel, cut small ; the same of sweet almonds, blanched and cut ; loaf sugar ; and caraway comfits (some of the latter may be kept to j strew over the top of the bread). Dissolve a I pound of butter, and when it is getting cool pour it into the flour, and mix it quickly into I a dough, with half a pound more flour

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