Old-time Tea Cakes

Ingrients & Directions


1 c Sugar
1/2 c Butter
1 Egg
4 tb Buttermilk
1/4 ts Salt
1 ts Each: vanilla and lemon
-extract
2 1/2 c All-purpose flour; (up to 3)
1 ts Baking soda

Notes: From Houston (Texas) Chronicle.

Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Cream sugar and butter. Add egg, buttermilk,
salt, vanilla and lemon extract. Mix well. Mix flour and soda and add
enough flour to make a dough you can handle well. Roll out thin and cut
with cookie cutters or drop from a teaspoon onto cookie sheet. Sprinkle
tops with sugar if desired. Bake 10 to 15 minutes.


Yields
1 Servings

RobinDee

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