Tea Cakes or Cookies

Ingredients

• 3 cups of sugar
• 2 of butter
• 3 eggs
• 1 cup of sour milk
• 1 full teaspoon soda sifted in with some flour
• 1 tablespoon lemon juice or extract
• and flour to roll out, but not too stiff.

Method

1. 1

   Take out a large spoonful at a time, roll very thin, then sprinkle over with sugar and a few caraway seeds if liked.

2. 2

   Run the rolling pin over again, cut out, and bake in a quick oven.

3. 3

   Very nice.

As published

This recipe was extracted from San Rafael cook book, 1906 (1906) by Katherine Golden Bitting Collection on Gastronomy (Library of Congress), page 79. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

TEA CAKES OR COOKIES — Mrs. W. F. Jones. 3 cups of sugar and 2 of butter worked to a cream; 3 eggs, 1 cup of sour milk, 1 full teaspoon soda sifted in with some flour, 1 tablespoon lemon juice or extract, and flour to roll out, but not too stiff.

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