Southern Sweet Tea Pie Food

SWEET TEA PIE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°. On a lightly floured surface, roll piecrust into a 12-inch circle. Press into bottom and up sides of a 9-inch pie plate. Fold edges under, and crimp as desired. Refrigerate 15 minutes. Top with a piece of parchment paper, letting ends extend over edges of plate. Add pie weights. Bake 15 minutes. Carefully remove paper and weights. Let cool 30 minutes on a wire rack. In a large bowl, stir together sugar, flour, cornmeal, and salt. Add eggs and egg yolks; beat at medium speed with an electric mixer until combined. Add tea, butter, and lemon zest and juice; beat until combined. Pour into prepared crust. Bake until set, approximately 35 minutes. Let cool completely on a wire rack. Refrigerate until chilled. Serve with whipped cream; garnish with zest, if desired.

BLACK FOLKS SOUTHERN TEA CAKE RECIPE

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.
• In a medium-size bowl, use an electric mixer to combine the butter, granulated sugar, and brown sugar for about 2 minutes until creamy.
• Add the egg, lemon zest, sour cream, mayonnaise, evaporated milk, and vanilla extract.
• Mix until well blended to make the tea cake batter.
• Sift together the remaining dry ingredients: flour, baking powder, salt, and nutmeg over a sheet of parchment paper large enough to fit your baking sheet.
• Fold the parchment paper to pour the sifted flour mixture into the tea cake batter and then mix again.
• Add the batter to a lightly floured surface and roll the dough to approx ¼ inch thickness. This is where the extra cup of flour will come in handy to help with rolling because the dough is sticky!
• Cut out the tea cakes with a 2 ½" up to 3″ biscuit cutter. (I used a 2 ¾" biscuit cutter.)
• Place the rounds onto a parchment paper-lined baking sheet about one inch apart. (You may need to bake more than 1 batch if all your rounds don't fit on your baking sheet.)
• Bake until light brown (but don't let them get too brown!). 5-6 minutes in the conventional oven and 3-4 minutes in the Instant Pot Omni Plus oven. (Tea cakes don't take long to bake, so keep a close eye on them to avoid burning! Like a biscuit, you want them firm on the outside and fluffy on the inside.)
• Optional: When the tea cakes are finished baking and cooling, optionally make the lemon glaze frosting by combining the powdered sugar and lemon juice.
• Mix well with a whisk to remove any lumps from the powdered sugar.
• Use a small spatula or spoon to drop a dollop of icing onto each cooled tea cake. The icing will harden in about 5 minutes.
• Optionally, garnish this Southern Black folk tea cake recipe with a sprinkle of lemon zest, then serve and enjoy!

SOUTHERN SWEET TEA PIE

Steps:

• In bowl of electric mixer, beat cream cheese and butter until well combined. Add flour and mix at low speed until dough forms a ball. Pat dough into 9-inch pie pan.
• Place pie shell in freezer while preparing filling. Heat oven to 350°F.
• In bowl of electric mixer, beat butter until light and fluffy. Gradually add sugar. Add lemon zest. Add egg yolks a little at a time allowing each addition to incorporate; scraping bowl often.
• Slowly add tea, vanilla, vinegar, and lemon juice. Add flour and cornmeal.
• Remove crust from freezer and fill.
• Bake at 350F for 50 minutes. Cool on wire rack. Chill at least 2 hours before serving.