Good Scottish Shortbread

• Flour, 1 lbs.
• sugar, 2 oz.
• candied orange or citron

With one pound of flour mix well two ounces of sifted sugar, and one of candied orange-rind or citron, sliced small; make these into a paste with from eight to nine ounces of good butter, made sufficiently warm to be liquid; press the paste together with the hands, and mould it upon tins into lar