This recipe came to me from my good friends Ken & Sandra Posten. They are retired near Ringgold GA, Thanks guys!

The Posten’s rate this recipe as “Excellent”! I have yet to try it but I plan to either on the coming Thanksgiving or Christmas holidays! Whichever comes first! J  Here is what one website says about Old Fashioned Tea Cakes: “Food and memories are so intertwined in southern cooking that just the mention of things like fried pies, drinking custard, picking blackberries for cobbler and preserves, or biscuit bread, can bring back a flood of memories associated with loved ones long past. If there is one single food that invokes that excitement for Southerners though it surely must be a Southern Tea Cake.”

Yields: 3 – 4 dozen cookies.

1 cup sugar

½ cup butter, softened

2 eggs beaten

2 ¼ cups all-purpose flour

2 teaspoons baking powder

¼ teaspoon salt

1 tablespoon milk (optional)

½ teaspoon vanilla extract

Cream sugar and butter until light and fluffy in a large mixing bowl: add eggs, mixing well. Combine dry ingredients; add to creamed mixture, mixing well. Add vanilla extract and milk. If dough is too dry. Chill dough 1 hour. Roll dough on un-greased cookie sheets; bake at 375 degrees for 13 to 15 minutes or until lightly browned.

There ya go! Put a little south in your mouth! Enjoy!

Tom Clark