This interferes with my word, especially with iced tea and good company. Come right over. Just took some teacakes out of the oven.
Grandma’s Teacakes
(Yield about three dozen 2 ” cookies)
These are soft and keep well a day or so, if you have any left. Don’t count on it.
1 cup butter
2 cups sugar
2 eggs
3 cups self-rising flour (if you use all-purpose, add 1 1/2 tsp baking powder and 1/4 tsp salt per cup to substitute)
1 1/2 tsp vanilla extract (may substitute almond or lemon extract)
sprinkle cinnamon or nutmeg if desired
Preheat oven to 325 degrees
Cream butter and sugar till smooth. Add beaten eggs one at a time. then vanilla. Mix dry ingredients, then stir in 1 cup at a time for first 2 cups. Dough will be getting very thick. Add 1/2 cup dry mix and blend in. Will be almost consistency of Play-Do. Sprinkle most of last 1/2 cup of flour on blended mix to coat. Lift and dust bowl with remainder, to use to keep dough from sticking to your fingers. Roll into 1″ ball. Place on greased cookie sheet, leaving plenty of room to spread. I can get about 5 rows of 3. If you put them closer, they will run together. Place one pan on top rack and one pan one second rack of oven. Set timer for 7 minutes. At 7 minutes alternate placement, putting cookies from bottom rack on top and those from top on bottom. Set for 5 more minutes. May need another couple of minutes so that centers have puffed up. Teacakes are done when they are just getting golden around edges and tops have risen nicely. Do not let them get brown on top or they will get hard as rocks. They burn quickly.
Cookies will fall a little and get cracks as they cool. You may have to test a time or two to get just right. Err on side of caution until you figure out just how you like them.
I am trying this! My great grandmother made tea cakes and I loved them!! thank you
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I hope you enjoy. Never make these if you are home alone!
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These sound delicious, Linda. 🙂 — Suzanne
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They are so good!
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A lovely recipe. I love teacakes.
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It is hard not o!
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A delicious and easy recipe from Linda. Visit her blog, it will keep you coming back. ☺☺☺
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Thanks for Reblog.
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Noms *dunks teacake in tea.*
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Go ahead and spoil your dinner. It won’t be as good as the teacakes.
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The exact same recipe my mother always used, which was passed down to me. But since you’re doing the baking today, I’ll be right over. 🙂
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Excellent. We’ll have fun.
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Be there shortly😊
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Come on. I’ll send some home with you. You know I’m from the South, Bless your heart!
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Well all right! I wasn’t too sure. But now that I know, I’ll just go on and on about it. It’s really really nice! Love the rocks on the ground, the perfect corner wood crisscross thing with leaves growing on it. OMG! I just love it! You guys are good!
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We always have a bunch of projects going on.
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Nice! Hope you will be showing what you guys are up to with your latest project.
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I will. Need to find a few links. Some already done.
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Find a few links? You mean you have links that shows your projects that had been done by you guys?
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Did you see table made of a pigpen?
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A table made from pig pen? Goodness no! Cool! Tee hee, I have a weird picture in my head of a table going oink oink!
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Ha
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Yes, I saw the patio chairs. Another wonderful amazing thing!
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Oh good.
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Yes, I have seen it and I love love love it!
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Will find some more.
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The photo, is it your back yard? Very nice!
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Yes, thanks
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I bookmarked this! I’m a cookie-makin’ kinda gal (my kids are trying to get me to stop. I MOSTLY obey my children…but NOT TODAY! Thanks soo much for this.
p.s. I’d rather crash your house, tho, and eat yours. 🙂
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Come on. I’d be so glad. Where are you? Why on earth would your kids want you to stop? Are they worried about getting fat?
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It doesn’t take much (especially for me now – ugh!) No, I think it’s the school’s fault…infiltrating their minds with responsible things. outrageous.
🙂
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Sanity is bad!
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