Tea Cakes

Ingredients

• Five pints of flour
• 2 1/2 cups of granulated sugar
• 1 1/2 teacups of butter
• 3 teaspoons carbonate of ammonia
• 6 eggs

Method

1. 1

   Cream the butter and sugar, then break in 3 eggs, then add the other 3 eggs and the ammonia, and lastly the flour, until a puff dough.

2. 2

   Roll out, cut tolerably thin and bake in a moderate oven.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Kentucky receipt book (1903) by Mary Harris Frazer, page 156. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Tea Cakes. Five pints of flour, 2% cups of granulated sugar, 1% teacups of butter, 3 teaspoons carbonate of ammonia, 6 eggs

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