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Tea Cakes

From Durham cook book ..., 1921
Presented as published in 1921. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.

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This recipe was extracted from Durham cook book ... (1921) by Durham (N. C.) Trinity Methodist Church. Woman's Missionary Society, page 25. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

TEA CAKES. Two cups sugar, flour to make dough stiff enough to roll, two eggs or yolks of four eggs, one cup lard, one cup sour milk, one teaspoon- ful soda, one pinch salt. — Mrs. M. F. Makkham. MOTHER'S TEA CAKES. One egg, one cup sugar, one-half cup butter, one-fourth cup buttermilk, one teaspoonful soda

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