Original recipe from Gervase Markham, The English Huswife:

To make fine cakes; take a pottle of fine flour, and a pound of butter, a pound of sugar, a little mace and a good store of water to mingle the flour into a stiff paste, and a good season of salt and so knead it, and roll out the cake thin and bake them on papers.

Modern recipe:

• 6 cups soft butter
• 1 1/2 tsp. salt
• 3 cups granulated sugar
• 1/2 Tbs. cinnamon
• 12 cups unbleached flour