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Cookies: Yesteryear Granny Tip's Teacakes Recipe

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Ingredients:  
Ingredients:  
⅔ C lard (Crisco, butter, or oleo)
1⅓ C sugar
1 egg, large
5 C flour
3 tsp baking powder
½ C milk (whole or 2%)
1 tsp vanilla
Directions:
Directions:
Cream lard and sugar until mixture is fluffy. Add egg to mixture and beat well. Sift 4 cups flour with baking powder. Add milk alternately with flour/baking powder mixture. Add vanilla. Use other 1 cup flour to sprinkle on board/rolling pin and to stiffen dough. Before cutting with a 2" cutter, sprinkle dough with sugar. Bake on greased cookie sheet at 375º for 8-10 minutes. Cool completely before storing in airtight container.
Personal Notes:
Personal Notes:
Recorded by Margaret A. McLemore, daughter of Mary Tipton McLemore, daughter of Alice Mary Caradine Tipton. Alice had used this recipe all her married life from 1904. It was her mother's recipe ((Cadelonia McDougal Caradine (1849-1899), wife of James Newton Caradine)). Making this recipe well over 100 years old. Margaret says the teacakes are "just as good today as they were then." Alice Caradine Tipton was the daughter of James Newton Caradine, who was the son of Thomas G Caradine (1802-1882). Thomas is buried in Cairo Presbyterian Cemetary, Hwy 46, Clay County, MS. If you want a real TEACAKE, then roll out the dough ¼" thick. If a crisper cookie is desired, roll thin as possible.

 

 

 

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