Grandmama's tea cakes

1 Servings

Ingredients

Quantity Ingredient
2 Sticks butter
2 cups Sugar
4 Eggs
3 teaspoons Baking powder
½ teaspoon Salt; (optional)
7 cups All purpose flour; (more or less)
½ teaspoon Baking soda
1 teaspoon Vanilla
¼ cup Milk
Freshly grated nutmeg; to taste, about 1/3 of a nut

Directions

This is the recipe my mother's mother used when my mother was a child.

There are probably better cookies of this type, but none that have fonder memories. Mama had all sorts of sprinkles that we could decorate them with.

I baked this cookie for my mother to have with egg nog or coffee, and I still bake them to remember.

Cream butter and sugar well; add eggs, one at a time. Stir together dry ingredients with the first cup of flour and add to the butter mixture. Add all of the milk and enough of the flour to make a dough firm enough for rolling. (The less flour, the more tender the cookie) Roll about ¼ inch thick, cut to desired shapes, place on lightly greased sheets and bake at 375F for about 8 to 10 minutes, or until lightly tanned.

Cool before storing in an air tight container.

Posted to KitMailbox Digest by ddmmom@... on Dec 07, 1997

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