Old Fashioned Tea Cakes

Ingredients

• ½ cup shortening
• 3 eggs
• 1 heaping cup sugar
• 1 pint sifted flour
• pinch of salt
• 2 heaping teaspoons baking powder
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• small amount of milk or water

Method

1. 1

   Cream shortening and eggs with sugar.

2. 2

   Add sifted flour, salt, baking powder, and vanilla.

3. 3

   If needed, add small amount of milk or water or more flour so that dough may be thin enough to cut cookies.

4. 4

   Part of this amount may be put in refrigerator for several days.

Nutrition per serving

As published

This recipe was extracted from Favorite recipes (North Carolina, 1948) (1948) by Women's Guild Corinth Evangelical and Reformed Church (Hickory, North Carolina), page 5. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

4 cup shortening (14 but- 1 cup sugar ter, %-crisco) 1 cup boiling water 12 cups quick oats Boil mixture until thick, set 12 cups sifted flour aside to cool. ~ % teaspoon soda YW teaspoon salt Mix thoroughly. Pat mixture into bottom of pan and line sides. — Pour in date mixture, pat rest of mixture on top. Bake in oven of 350 degrees % hour. Cool, cut in squares. Mrs. Charles Menzies, Jr. ‘-. COOK BOOK | 13 OATMEAL COOKIES 3 eggs slightly beaten 1 teaspoon nutmeg 1 cup sugar 2 cups oatmeal %4 cup shortening (melt and stir 1 box raisins (simmer while pre- into eggs and sugar) paring other ingredients) 2 cups flour 1 cup nut meats 1 teaspoon cinnamon Put 1 teaspoon soda in 1 tablespoon vinegar and add last thing. 375 for 15 minutes. Mrs. Lindsay Shuford OLD FASHIONED TEA CAKES Cream % cup shortening and 3 eggs with 1 heaping cup sugar. Add 1 pint sifted flour, pinch of salt, 2 heaping teaspoons baking powder and 1 teaspoon vanilla. If needed add small amount of milk or water

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