Bess Teacake

Ingredients

• 3 eggs well beaten
• 1 cup shortening
• cups sugar
• Q^s. Melrose flour
• teaspoons Royal baking powder
• % teaspoon salt
• 2 tablespoons milk or orange juice

Method

1. 1

   Roll the dough very thin and cut.

2. 2

   Sprinkle with cinnamon and sugar.

3. 3

   Bake quickly.

Nutrition per serving

As published

This recipe was extracted from Anson County cook book (1928) by First Baptist Church (Wadesboro, N.C.), page 48. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

BESS TEACAKE" 3 3ggs well beaten 1 cup shortening cups sugar Q^s. Melrose flour teaspoons Royal baking powder % teaspoon salt 2 tablespoons milk or orange juice. Roll the dough very thin and cut. Sprinkle with cinnamon and sugar. Bake quickly.— Mrs. U. B. Blalock, Raleigh, N. C. Royal Cleaners — Branches: \\ adesboro, Rockingham, Laurinburg, Hamlet RUSSIAN ROCKS 3 eggs 1 cup butter IV2 cups sugar 3*/2 cups flour V2 teaspoon soda dissolved in 2 tea- spoons water 1 cup raisins, chopped fine 1 cup nuts, chopped fine V'i teaspoon cinnamon x/2 teaspoon cloves V2 teaspoon nutmeg Cream butter and sugar, add well beaten eggs, flour, nuts, spices and soda. Drop small portions, well spaced on buttered pan and bake in moderate oven. — Mrs. J. B. Ingram. DROPPED COOKIES V2 cup butter 1 cup sugar 2 eggs V2 cup milk 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon V2 cup molasses 1 cup raisins 3 cups Melrose flour 2 teaspoons Royal baking powder V2 teaspoon ground cloves Beat butter and sugar to a cream. Add the well beaten eggs, then the milk, molasses and raisins, lastly, dry ingredients, well sifted together. Drop small spoonfuls on greased pans, some distance apart. Bake in moderate ovea about ten minutes. — Mrs. H. B. Allen. , "MOTHER HARMAN'S" ICE BOX COOKIES 3 eggs, well beaten

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