Old-Fashioned Tea Cake Recipe

By Jean Teller
Published on October 8, 2010
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Lori Dunn
Enjoy your tea cakes with some afternoon tea.

Ken Brown, Oxford, Florida, is looking for a recipe for old-fashioned tea cookies. The soft dough was rolled out and cut. It did not have sugar on top, and it probably was high in butter or lard. He remembers the cookie from the Thomasville, Georgia, area years ago.

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Many of our readers recognized the recipe, including Joan Ferrer, Fort Mill, South Carolina.  

She writes, “This is my aunt’s, Eunice Browning from Anderson County. She would have turned 90 this year. I take a shortcut and skip the chilling by flouring my hands and rolling the dough into 1-inch balls, then flattening them with a glass dipped in sugar.” 

A note in another recipe cautions against adding extra flour; too much will make the cookies hard.  

Old-Fashioned Tea Cakes 

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