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Tea Cakes #1-Susan's Tea Cakes

Submitted By Anis Dodson Fricks
Ingredients:

1½ cups sugar
3 cups flour
1 cup Crisco
¼ tsp salt
1 tsp baking powder
3 eggs (if doubling recipe, use 5 eggs)
½ tsp vanilla

Mix sugar and Crisco. Add eggs, two at a time, and
vanilla and beat well. Mix flour, salt and baking
powder together in another bowl. Add flour mixture
a little at a time to Crisco, egg and sugar mixture.
Beat well. Drop from tsp onto cookie sheet and
bake until they just begin to brown (8 to 10 minutes
in a 350°F oven).

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Tea Cakes #2-Dorothy's Tea Cakes

Submitted By Dorothy Gatlin McWilliams
Ingredients:

2 sticks butter
1½ cups sugar
Cream together

Add:
2 eggs
3 cups flour
½ tsp baking soda
1 tsp baking powder
1 Tbsp vanilla

Drop by teaspoon onto greased cookie sheet. Bake
at 375°F until light brown. Store in airtight container.

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