Orange Teacakes

Ingredients

• One cup of butter
• 4 eggs
• 2 cups of sugar
• squeeze juice of 1 orange over it
• a little nutmeg
• 3 teaspoons of yeast powder
• 3 pints of flour

Method

1. 1

   Cream sugar and butter together; add eggs.

2. 2

   Sift flour into the batter, stir until stiff.

3. 3

   Add more flour and knead with the hands.

4. 4

   Roll out and cut with cake-cutter.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Kentucky receipt book (1903) by Mary Harris Frazer, page 145. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Orange Teacakes. One cup of butter, 4 eggs, 2 cups of sugar ; take the sugar first and squeeze juice of 1 orange over it, then cream, sugar and butter together ; add' a litle nutmeg. Break the eggs into the sugar and butter ; sift 3 teaspoons of yeast powder into 3 pints of flour

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