Recipe For Old Fashioned Tea Cakes
Recipe by southern living december 1999.
Recipe for old fashioned tea cakes. You can have these wonderful tea cakes ready in about 30 minutes. Now you can enjoy these delicious treats anytime with any beverage. Stir into the creamed mixture.
You can add an additional 1 4 to 1 2 cup of sugar to the recipe. Cover and refrigerate until firm. Preheat oven to 350 degrees f.
Mention tea cakes to people from other locations and you are sure to get different thoughts on the subject. Cream shortening sugar and eggs in a mixer bowl until light and fluffy. Some people may think about russian tea cakes while others may think about green tea cakes.
They are an old fashioned southern favorite. Whisk together the flour nutmeg baking soda and salt and add to the butter and sugar mixture 1 2 cup at a time until each addition is fully incorporated. Tea cakes are buttery and slightly soft not as sweet as a sugar cookie and falling somewhere between a cookie and a cake.
Preheat the oven to 325 degrees f 165 degrees c. Combine the flour baking soda salt and nutmeg. This recipe is so easy no mixer required and no chilling dough.
Knead dough for a few turnns on a floured board until smooth. Our recipe calls for the zest of one lemon adding just the right hint of citrus to the buttery tea cake. At their most basic tea cakes are simply flour and sugar combined with butter and buttermilk.