Scottish Breakfast Bread, or Baps

The first year I moved to Charleston, I roomed with Archibald MacLeish Martin, a member of the St. Andrews Society with deep roots in the Lowcountry. Some 20 years later he asked me for a good recipe for shortbread; the family had misplaced his grandmother’s. If they should find her yellowed papers, they might well find among them a copy of Meg Dods’s The Cook and Housewife’s Manual, which appears regularly in the inventories of 19th-century Charleston libraries. First published in 1