Shortbread biscuits

According to Florence Marian McNeill in a 1929 book, The Scots Kitchen, a decorated form of shortbread, known as ‘infar-cake’, was the wedding cake of rural Scotland. On the first day of the marriage, or ‘Infare day’, the infar-cake was broken over the bride’s head on the threshold of her new home. This very old custom finds its origin in paganism.

The textbook shortbread is one part sugar fo