Old-fashioned Tea Cakes
Yield: 10 dozen
Preheat Oven: 400°
3 2/3 cups cake flour, sifted
2 1/2 tsp. baking powder
1/2 tsp. salt
2/3 cup butter
1 1/2 cups sugar
2 eggs
1 tsp. vanilla extract or (1/4 tsp. vanilla and
3/4 tsp. almond extract)
4 tsp. milk
Mix together cake flour and baking powder. Add salt.
Sift again. Cream butter thoroughly; add sugar gradually, creaming well.
Add eggs, one at a time, beating thoroughly after each addition. Add vanilla
extract, then add flour alternately with milk. Blend. Chill dough. Roll
1/8-inch thick. Cut with a floured, 2 1/4-inch scalloped cutter and sprinkle
with white sugar. Bake on a greased baking sheet in hot oven (400°)
for 9 minutes.
For Christmas, sprinkle with red or green sugar crystals
instead of white sugar.
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