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