Recipe Old Fashioned Tea Cakes
They are an old fashioned southern favorite.
Recipe old fashioned tea cakes. This recipe is so easy no mixer required and no chilling dough. Recipe by southern living december 1999. You can have these wonderful tea cakes ready in about 30 minutes.
Like many of our oldest recipes tea cakes were created out of scarcity both in ingredients and time. Add slowly to mixture alternating with milk until mixed. Add the remaining ingredients and mix with a spoon until all of the flour has become moistened.
Add sugar and well beaten egg. Remove the tea cakes from the oven place them on a cooling rack until they are cool to the touch. Fluffy buttery and shockingly tender old fashioned tea cakes are more akin to a crossover between a biscuit and a cookie than they are to a cake.
She had a sixth sense that allowed her to know when guests were coming up the driveway. Place the self rising flour see the recipe for quantity sugar and salt in a large mixing bowl. Pour dough out onto a lightly floured surface and knead.
Beat in the eggs one at a time then stir in the vanilla. In the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with a paddle attachment cream the sugar and butter until light and fluffy. Place a baking mat on your cookie sheet or skip the baking sheet it s up to you and spray it with baking spray.
Knead dough for a few turnns on a floured board until smooth. In a medium bowl cream together the butter and sugar until smooth. Stir into the creamed mixture.