Comments on: Tea Cakes

By: Katydid

Katydid — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 00:27:43 +0000

I came to your site because I googled “yellow cake mix” and found you there. Then I (after using your cake mix for a recipe on Gina’s Skinny Recipes for her pumpkin muffins with cream cheese frosting)had to come back and check you out. This tea cake recipe and your comments CRACKED me up. I love your humor, totally like my own. I’ll be checking your blog regularly

By: Kelly

Kelly — Fri, 24 Sep 2010 02:34:08 +0000

This cracked me up.

I too long for afternoon tea, but I want eclectic, mismatched tea cups and invite guests over for some tea with me.

By: beejay

beejay — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 06:36:38 +0000

You flour the nuts (or fruit, or chocolate chips) so that they don’t sink to the bottom when the stuff bakes. It’s more important for cakes/breads – like you don’t want all the nuts in your banana nut bread sitting at the bottom when you cut it.
It’s a trick my mother taught me and one I tried to pass onto a Marine Captain who like to bake. Try telling a Marine to put flour on his nuts and see what happens. Heh.

By: Natalie

Natalie — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 17:40:42 +0000

They look amazing – and I LOVE that tea set. I try and make room for afternoon tea in my life, even if it’s just a cup of really good tea while I’m working. But it’s so much better if you can squeeze in a little treat to go with it. These look perfect!

By: Christy O

Christy O — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 04:53:45 +0000

In Little House on the Prairie, maple sugar was their everyday sugar and they only used white sugar for guests.

By: Suzanne McMinn

Suzanne McMinn — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 11:34:31 +0000

Ruth, yes, I am talking about rural western Oklahoma, and of course my great-grandparents’ “real” pioneering took place in the early 1900s, long before my great-grandmother got this cookbook in 1927. My great-grandfather claimed land and built a house carrying materials on wagonloads across the prairie (from those settled areas you talk about) then married and brought my great-grandmother out there when the house was ready (all of this pre-1907).

By: Ruth

Ruth — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 09:14:27 +0000

Suzanne, sweetie, unless your grandmother was living in the western portion of Oklahoma in 1927 (Your cookbook date.), which is where the plains area is, I’m not sure how much pioneering she was doing then. Even if the book was being used later, in spite of the date, Oklahoma had been pretty settled for quite awhile and had a lot of large cities in the 20′s!! You should see the picture I have of my grandmother in a Flapper dress and standing on the running board of a car! Granted statehood wasn’t achieved until 1907, there were a lot of people who had already settled in what was then Indian Territory before the official land run. Which is the reason we are also known as “Sooners”, and not because of the football team from Ok University.

By: Sue

Sue — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 01:55:26 +0000

Tea Cakes are an old East Texas Tradition. Here they are more like sugar cookies without much sugar. My kids called them “Wall Paper Paste Cookies.” They ate them anyway. They had no nuts, and were basically a pastry recipe with egg and baking powder. Once I threw in some vanilla and then the kids called them Flavored Wall Paper Paste Cookies. They learned to load them up with jelly, which pretty much wiped out the low sugar benefit, but, hey…they worked for an after school snack.

By: Rachel from Maine

Rachel from Maine — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 00:51:38 +0000

Maple sugar is what you get when you boil the sap past the stage for maple syrup. You can make your own by boiling maple syrup to 238 degrees, pour it into a bowl and stir until it becomes granulated.
It’s really good when you make your baked beans with it. Yum!

By: NikkiInWalton

NikkiInWalton — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 00:22:56 +0000

They turned out well! Very tasty!