Cornish Tea Cakes Food

TEA CAKES

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My husband's great-grandmother's tea cake recipe.

Provided by BeckyL

Categories Desserts Cookies Drop Cookie Recipes

Time 15m

Yield 24

Number Of Ingredients 6

Ingredients

1 cup butter, softened
1 ½ cups white sugar
3 cups all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 teaspoon baking powder
½ teaspoon baking soda

Steps:

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease a baking sheet.
Beat butter and sugar in a bowl until creamy. Stir in flour, vanilla extract, baking powder, and baking soda until dough is well mixed. Drop spoonfuls of dough 2 inches apart onto prepared baking sheet.
Bake in preheated oven until lightly browned, 5 to 10 minutes.

Nutrition Facts : Calories 173.7 calories, Carbohydrate 24.5 g, Cholesterol 20.3 mg, Fat 7.8 g, Fiber 0.4 g, Protein 1.7 g, SaturatedFat 4.9 g, Sodium 101.3 mg, Sugar 12.6 g

CORNISH TEA CAKES

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Number Of Ingredients 9

Ingredients

4 oz lard or butter
4 oz dried craisins or dried red currants
1/2 tsp mixed spice
1 oz dried rosehips
2 ozs birch sugar (xylitol)
1/2 pt buttermilk
(beaten egg to glaze)
8 oz (1cup) chestnut flour mixed with 1 1/2 teaspoons of baking powder and
1/4 teaspoon of seasalt

Steps:

Rub the fat in the self rising chestnut flour, then add the red currants/ crasins, birch sugar, dried rose hips and mixed spice. Add sufficient buttermilk to make into a soft dough. Roll out to half an inch thickness and cut to shape with a round cutter. Brush with beaten egg to glaze and bake at about 350F for 10 to 15 minutes. These are nice split and spread with butter.

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