Making Tea Cakes in Appalachia

[@CelebratingAppalachia]

*Recipe starts at 2:50 - 🍳Purchase my eCookbook - 10 of My Favorite Recipes from Appalachia here: etsy.me/3kZmaC2

[@Autumn_Forest_]

This is also a great gift idea!

[@cornbreadfedkirkpatrick9647]

I'm an old-fashioned Tipper do you have a hard copy of your cookbook. I'm kinda nervous about ordering online still.

[@cumberlandquiltchic1]

I was wondering the same thing about s hard copy. I have way too many books but I can’t help it...nothing like a real book. Lol

[@sameoldmphymel]

Memories! Indeed! My grandmother made those by the hundreds. Real thin, buttery and with a thin coat of icing made with confectioner's sugar, but painted on so thinly, and I recall the icing would be dry and crisp. We'd ride through miles of farmland through the sugarcane fields connecting our community to their's, or pop in unannounced when spending long fall afternoons dove hunting. There were always ample supplies of tea cookies, and she'd always send us off with a big jar full. Such memories. My daughter is about the same age as yours and she started making them as a teenager and she nailed it. Every Christmas she'll make them, and it never fails to bring back those memories

[@CelebratingAppalachia]

Wonderful memories 😀

[@ReeImagined]

I love when you read stories and bits from the past. It humanizes the recipes, don't you think? =)

[@CelebratingAppalachia]

I surely do think so 😀 So glad you enjoy it!!

[@deborahbaxter27]

My grandmother made these. We laugh a lot when we remember the milk cow ate dogfennel and the teacakes had a strange flavor. We loved having her make them....except then. Great memories. Northwest Arkansas is where I grew up. My ancesters were from Tennessee and beyond.

[@CelebratingAppalachia]

😀 What a good memory!

[@marilynpeppers1356]

🤣🤣🤣💖 We had venison several years ago that had not been eating any good grass, I think.

[@vernareed2692]

Deborah Baxter im from NW Arkansas too!! Lots of kinfolks over there!!

[@inthejcurve7968]

I love this channel! As a young man I went to live with my grandparents at age 13. While living there my grandma taught me how to cook. I told her “I don’t want to learn how to cook.” She told me “anyone who eats as much as you needs to know how to cook.” It might sound unkind, but she was nothing but kind and had a great sense of humor. Watching this video reminded me of when my grandma and I used to make snickerdoodle cookies. It’s a good memory.

[@CelebratingAppalachia]

So glad you enjoy our videos! Thank you for sharing about your grandma she sounds wonderful 😀

[@inthejcurve7968]

@Celebrating Appalachia I’m not a bragger, but when it comes to my grandparents I’ll brag all day long. My grandma was a terrific woman. She taught me so much, and I can’t wait to see her again on the other side of the pearly gates.

[@dylangabriel13]

My Nanny made what she called “cat head biscuits”. They’re just huge biscuits and we poured coffee on them. Growing up in the heart of Southern Appalachia , the food is phenomenal. My ancestors go back generation after generation in the mountains. So much has been passed down.

[@dhs2060]

You should start a family cookbook and life story lived.It’s the self comfort people are so urning to hear and read about today 🙏

[@thedr309]

Here in NW Ga, it is a staple of growing up Tea Cakes, I just now called my aunt who has made them for years and asked her about them an as she told me, they were made when sugar was expensive, so the low sugar content, they were made to tide us over to dinner as she would say, but very cheap to make and made lots of people happy. I remember going to my grandmothers house when she was baking Tea Cakes and oh my goodness... you could smell the sweetness out to the road! walk in and the kitchen be covered in them! Everywhere, but try and sneak one.....lol she counted them... she would just smile and wink at us kids as we walked out with a hand full... great times, and I have added another item to my list of things to make for the holidays this year, I also do these and do them a bit thicker, then cover them with butter cream icing we usually let the kids do it .. love em thank you for sharing .. oh one more thing, when you got that second pan ready I was impressed! your fast! lol love the high speed stuff... great fun.

[@CelebratingAppalachia]

Glad you enjoyed this one! I bet that icing really brings them up a notch 😀

[@letscleanhouse]

I think tea cakes are a Deep South tradition. My Mom used to make the best. She cooked them in an iron skillet and they looked like biscuits❤️

[@dianemattei9449]

This is almost the identical recipe for cookies my Italian Grandmother made every Christmas. She added crushed anise seeds to the dough. She called them, of course, Anise Cookies. Then she would omit the anise seeds in another batch, roll the dough onto a pizza pan like a crust, bake it until the edge started to turn golden brown like your cookies, let it cool then pour a couple of those melted gigantic Hershey bars with almonds on top of the crust, spread it around evenly & let it cool in the refrigerator. Then cut it into narrow wedge slices & serve. That was called Chocolate Torte'. My family had a five star Italian restaurant in Louisville Kentucky & that was a dessert favorite for many years. They used Grandma's recipe..... Such delicious memories..... (Miss you Grandma 💖)

[@sherrismith1520]

What was the name of your restaurant in Lou., KY? I’m from Louisville and there was a wonderful Italian restaurant called Lentini’s that has closed. That was the best, most authentic Italian restaurant I have ever dined in. I really miss that place.

[@madibawayne6314]

Love this Wonderful Story 👏

[@CelebratingAppalachia]

Yum sounds wonderful 😀

[@dianemattei9449]

Casa Grisanti, Ferd Grisanti's, & Trattoria Mattei. My family in the same order, second cousins, second cousin/my godfather & my uncle. My Mother, Grandmother, great aunt all contributed their family recipes that helped to start these restaurants..... I was raised on a LOT of wonderful Italian food & amazing memories.

[@judydavenport1524]

Love this channel! I am recovering from total knee surgery and have enjoyed all the recipes , gardening and all about your family. Will definitely keep watching !

[@CelebratingAppalachia]

Thank you Judy! Hope that knee heals up soon!

[@SuzieQ-lw2kp]

Hope you are doing well 🌹 I'm laid up in bed waiting on two back surgeries hopefully by October. I found this channel about 3 months ago when i fractured my back at the L3 to L,5 it's been a blessing that's for sure. I truly hope you are feeling great and are completely healed and having a wonderful summer.

[@cindypressley4285]

Tipper, I don't think I've ever made these cookies they seem like they would be cookie you'd wind up eating several of, subtle but good! I love watching you cook, you do everything with the ease that comes from lots of experience. I will be dropping by, probably tomorrow, to taste these Tea Cakes for myself!

[@donaldwells2102]

The Tea Cakes would go great with a cup of coffee, and work well with dipping in the coffee too. Tipper did Granny crochet your vest,it looks really pretty.Thanks for all You do to bring so much-needed goodness and happiness to our lives 🙂.

[@CelebratingAppalachia]

They would go perfect with coffee 😀 Granny did make my vest 😀

[@jeanniewright2554]

How many cookies did you end up with? I lost count! You’re right, though, it looks like a lot!! Yummm!!!

[@vickycamarena4697]

@@CelebratingAppalachia Maybe you can show us how to make that vest. lol I was also admiring it.

[@scotto9591]

I'm one of those people who ask. Thank you so much for sharing this recipe. Growing up in Birmingham, we would always attend my Dad's side family reunion. All the way up until I was in high school, it was at my Aunt Stella's place. A creek at the bottom of the hill had tadpoles and salamanders. Everyone played Nerf football and be filled with wonderful food. I love to sit around eating tea cakes and drinking tea, asking the old folks about our family. Our family members would come from far and wide. There would always be at least 100 to 150. Aunt Stella knew how much I like the teacakes. She would make a giant platter for the table, and a giant platter for me. I would usually polish them off between the trip from Chilton county to Birmingham. What a great memory. 😊

[@CelebratingAppalachia]

You are so welcome!! The reunion sounds just wonderful 😀

[@kourtnilackes7086]

I grew up and live now in North Georgia. I started making tea cakes as young as I remember with my Granny. My family now wants me to make them all the time!!

[@juliagarza9942]

Oh my. This is my Grandmother's tea cakes she made for me when I was little. Her ancestors from Scotland brought these recipes from the old country. Another one I loved was her shortbread cookies. I am so happy I found your channel. My mother did not remember the Tea Cake recipe . Thank you.

[@suecastillo4056]

Thank you for making these dear heart! It’s fun watching you cook stuff!!! You’re a special one Tipper!!!🤗💕♥️☮️‼️🥰🍁🐿🍂❣️🐞

[@CelebratingAppalachia]

Thanks so much 😀

[@janedavis81]

My grandmother use to sit me on her table by her while she made me tea cakes. I would eat raw tea cakes as fast as she could roll them out. Some time she would add a little lemon juice and zest to hers for a different flavor. Oh how I loved her tea cakes. She took such great care of me and when I had my small children there were 2. I took care of her until she passed away. I miss her so very much. I am so glad that my kids got to know her and love her as much as I did. She Loved my kids so very much.

[@kayluster7671]

It's such a joy to me to watch you and your daughter cooking together! My mother and my two sisters did that, too! Precious memories!

[@cherylcox4526]

These are my husband's grandmother's sugar cookies. We make them all the time. You can substitute lemon flavoring for the vanilla, and it gives it a different taste. Love these cookies. We use Christmas cookies cutters and decorate Christmas cookies with our 8 grandkids every year using these cookies.

[@lindat2948]

Yum! Those look so good! Thank you for the sweet memories ❤️. My Grandma made tea cakes all of the time when I was a child. I remembered thinking we were supposed to eat them while drinking sweet tea 😂 And we drank from snuff glasses! She would roll out her dough and use a knife to cut little rectangle shaped cookies. They were soft in the middle and crisp around the edges.

[@kathrynreed9724]

Tea Cakes are one of my favorite recipes. My recipe calls for buttermilk and I cut them thicker, and they never get hard. A soft cookie. Love your channel, and all your recipes. 💕

[@Gran-T]

Mama made Tea Cakes when we were young. She put the dough in the refrigerator for about 30 minutes to an hour. For variety she change up to almond or lemon extract instead of vanilla. Hadn't thought about them in years; thank you😃

[@CelebratingAppalachia]

Her method sound so good 😀

[@relax2dream164]

Any thing lemon is soooo good. I’d love to try this. ❤️🇨🇦

[@meloniemurillo2885]

My grandmother use to make tea cakes all the time. It was one of my favorites snacks before bedtime with a glass of milk when I was a child. I have always wanted to make these now I can because of this video. Thank you so much for posting it.

[@CelebratingAppalachia]

I hope you enjoy them 😀

[@ronwatson4902]

Ole Jerry Clower had a funny story about tea cakes. Thank you Tipper.

[@esalva1948]

I love hearing stories about grand mothers and grand fathers because I never had any. They were gone before I was born and I always felt different when other kids talked about their grandparents. Listening to you talk about yours gives me your memories to think about and lament what I missed. Love your channel.

[@chucky6367]

Same for me. My parents immigrated from Europe to Australia before l was born, l grew up without Grandparents, Aunts, uncles or cousins.l love watching these deep rooted families and hearing their stories.

[@debbieepperly3821]

I never had the pleasure of having grandparents. I was born when mama was 37, the youngest & I guess sort of an "uh-oh". My grandparents were passed away or did when I was too young to know. I feel cheated & like I missed out on having those special relationships. Especially since our only son blessed us with a wonderful grandson who is now 16 & loves spending time with us. So I know how you feel.

[@kellyshook6899]

Grandma always had tea cakes in the cookie jar. I now have that very cookie jar at my house...thank you for bringing up those memories ❤

[@CelebratingAppalachia]

So glad you've got her cookie jar-so special 😀

[@kaymurray4851]

Tipper I can’t thank you enough for sharing this recipe. My mother made these tea cakes when I was a child, l’m now 74 yrs. old. I loved them. I wasn’t able to get the recipe before she passed at 85 yrs. of age because she had a stroke and could not write or speak. before she passed. She called them sugar cookies but I’m sure this is her recipe because they weren’t sweet like a sugar cookie. My mother was raided in northeast Arkansas. I so appreciate you and your entire family. God bless you, keep making videos and I will certainly keep watching and enjoying them!

[@CelebratingAppalachia]

Thank you Kay!!

[@jimmiealawine5107]

I use a small melon scoop to place tea cakes on sheet. The spread but have a soft center. Delicious!

[@darkeyedcajunwoman1398]

My grandmother made tea cakes often, delicious!

[@memascabin1186]

I just wanted to add that I have five granddaughters and four grandsons and I would have at least six of them to stay with me and we had tea parties and they loved to dress up in my vintage clothes and hats except my grandson lol he was a little baby and as he grew up he would love the teas because he had chocolate milk lol if he drank tea it was iced tea lol they loved my lemon tea cakes and one that I made with lemon like a loaf and drizzled with a yummy lemon drizzle lol they loved the tiny Pettit fours with the different color icing sweet memories I’m now 70 years old and they are grown and some are married with their own babies now it’s a joy oh I have 11 great grandchildren so far lol tea times are so precious and love making memories!! Thank you for bringing me back to a special time in my life sweetie

[@CelebratingAppalachia]

What wonderful memories 😀

[@vickytribble3259]

My Granny’s snuff jars!! But of course she didn’t dip snuff (to hear her tell it)😂

[@CelebratingAppalachia]

😀

[@mspatti]

These remind me of English Digestive Biscuits that can be purchased in stores today. My 97 Year old MOM made sweet short bread. It was for short cake( fresh fruit like peaches), and to top deep dish cobbler crust on top only. There was lots of home canned fruit to eat and this type of pie and cobbler with white cake mix baked on top was the other favorite. She canned, cherries, peaches, pears, and apples. She froze blueberries, and rhubarb, and strawberries. The rhubarb upside down cake.... yum.

[@margaretevans1934]

Teacake in England is a totally different thing, in fact two different things! The normal teacake is a sweet bread dough bun with dried fruit which we slice open, toast and slap lots of butter on. The other sort of teacake is usually bought. It consists of a wafer circle with a dome of marshmallow on top then coated in chocolate made by a firm called Tunnocks.

[@relax2dream164]

Both sound delicious. ❤️🇨🇦

[@jgdays2439]

Tea cakes in England are very different : they are an enriched bread which is slightly sweet and has currants or raisin in it . They are round shaped and slightly flat , they are generally cut in half , toasted and served with butter . They are eaten with tea , often for ‘elevenses’ or for breakfast .

[@deewinston5651]

Tea cakes are very good with coffee too. Thank for sharing.🍁🍂

[@jasonrichards3785]

Jerry Clower had a funny story about Tea Cakes years ago. I love the episode Tipper. They are always good.

[@wandamorris780]

The recipe for tea cakes from our family from Mississippi is similar to this only we use more sugar and make them thicker. Also the cookies are more cake like, soft. Melt in your mouth. Lol.

[@dr.allisongunneph.d.6494]

I have a recipe for Teacakes dating back to 1800’s my great great grandmother! I’ve not grown up with them except once in a while. But, I’ve made them several times. They are lovely and so not crunchy. I do know that this recipe came over from Scotland & that’s where my great grandma just kept it up. Somewhere along the way the tea cake in my family became a novelty & rarely made… however it is our heritage! Blessings, Allison 🌼

[@timhood6970]

Yes! My Mawmaw always had Tea Cakes made, they were somethng we could easily grab and take with us for a snack on our way out to the fields on the tractor!

[@monjiaitaly]

I love a cookie that is crispy and not to sweet. I will try these and what a nice gift they would make.

[@relax2dream164]

Wow! That’s a big recipe. Cookies for days. Can’t say I’ve ever heard of a tea cake but they sound delicious. ❤️🇨🇦

[@midwestern925]

My great grandmother from Appalachian Mountains in Tennessee used to make these with directions like "handful" of, "the size of an egg" etc. She never owned a cookbook and was always canning, cooking, baking something

[@marilynpeppers1356]

My favorite part of the tea cake is pre-cooked tea cakes! As a much younger woman with little kids, my sister-in-law, Sara Jane, had me come to her house and she taught me how to make tea cakes…a staple in my husband’s family. When I first married, about all I knew how to cook was a hot dog. But that was my husband’s favorite meal at the time, so it was all good.👍🏻

[@CelebratingAppalachia]

Love that! Thank you Marilyn 😀

[@vivianpennington5330]

This is the same or near it like I made from what I remember my grandmother made. Hers were thicker and made a soft cookie. She was born in late 1800s in Arkansas and was Choctaw Indian. I have looked for recipes because she didn’t use one of course. Thank you.

[@1995jug]

My mother in law used to make them, she lived with us until she passed, brings back old memory's..

[@CelebratingAppalachia]

Thank you Joe 😀

[@coopie624]

Thank you for this video! My granny used to make tea cakes and this recipe is just like hers. My family are of Scots-Irish descent and settled in SC before moving on to GA and finally FL. I’m sure the recipe came over with them when they came to SC. Now I’m going to grab Granny’s recipe and make some tea cakes while I remember spending time with her.

[@Karebear59]

Seeing your mixing bowls brought back memories of my grandmothers kitchen. She had bowls like that! Wish I could find those!!

[@1CathyHendrix]

My grandmother made these for us!! My absolute favorite!! Her's was much softer...more like cake instead of a crisp cookie. She would make a confectioners sugar, vanilla and milk frosting and put it on some of them...but I liked the plain ones best. Nothing like a tea cake and a cup of coffee or a glass of milk.

[@CelebratingAppalachia]

Sounds so good 😀

[@jrg4313]

The tea cakes my mother made were like what you describe......softer, a little thicker, more cake like.

[@1CathyHendrix]

@@jrg4313 I just love them!

[@larrycounce4509]

Oh my many memories about tea cakes my grandmother made. She always had em ready for us grand kids and anyone who visited. She was half Shawnee and a wonderful person with a big heart I often think of her. Thanks for this video I can almost taste em while granddaddy played fiddle under the old oak tree.

[@Lyubushka100]

Like yourself I cook from my sole, memories, smells, tastes and looking at my grandkids conjure up my best creations! I so enjoy watching your perspectives from the opposite side of the country.

[@donnahogue2146]

My granny was a wonderful cook. She was the cook for a daycare center for 30-40 years. I don't ever remember her making tea cakes, but she made the best strawberry preserves, biscuits, cobblers, pies, fried pies and apple stack cake. She knew how much I loved her strawberry preserves on toast. She would cook that toast in the oven with real butter. The aroma in that kitchen is still in my memory and I always feel loved. I miss my granny. She has been gone for 7 years now. She died at 100 years and 6 months.

[@sukarichristian9039]

Thanks for the memories of teacakes. In Northern Louisiana, our teacakes were made with butter, were the size of small pancakes, and rose in the center just a little more like an actual cake, very tasty, a bit soft and crusty.

[@dianewilliams5271]

Nice easy little cookie! Thanks for sharing!

[@the2leaves]

My Mamaw always made tea cakes; she lived in Texas, but supposedly her family and my Papaw's came from Tennessee, Kentucky, Virginia. I make them now, but there is buttermilk in them, not milk. So good, not too sweet. Just love watching you cook, and tell your stories!

[@alexisalexander9037]

You are so wonderful!!! I love your channel so much. When a new one comes it's like my birthday and Christmas wrapped up together. ❤

[@CelebratingAppalachia]

Oh my goodness-thank you 😀

[@alexisalexander9037]

@@CelebratingAppalachia it wasn't a compliment. I meant it, so thank you for being you. ❤

[@CelebratingAppalachia]

@@alexisalexander9037 😀

[@JT-py9lv]

A hot cup of Earl Gray and you cookies. YUM !

[@CelebratingAppalachia]

😀

[@jennifermcdaniel76]

This brings back so many lovely memories of my childhood. My family used the same recipe for the 'cake' part of apple stack cakes. These and homemade chicken dumplins are my favorite! Thank you for sharing this!

[@CelebratingAppalachia]

I'm so glad you've got those good memories 😀

[@cherylhaynes1264]

My Grandmother and my Dad use to bake Tea Cakes. I love Tea Cakes

[@selenahadlow9700]

Thanks Tipper.that was so nice of you.i bet they are good.look forward to all your recipes.and the old ways.makes me homesick for my Gramma cooking.sugar was hard to come by for old timers.we probably have too much today.Have a great evening.God bless you all.love your vest.colors look good on you.♥️🙏

[@Cynthia2v]

One of my grandmothers made these for us whenever we visited her in south Texas. The sweet delicate simplicity is what I like about tea cakes. My husband favors these over most desserts.

[@debweissler7808]

Oh thank you! My ex-husband was the tea cake maker and when he left he took the family recipe with him. I’ve missed them terribly! He used the half your ingredients to make fewer tea cakes. Wonderful with coffee or hot tea!

[@kiml5758]

I love tea cakes..my dad taught me how using my grandma's recipe. I first learned on a old wood cook stove we still have today

[@CelebratingAppalachia]

That is great 😊

[@margieorr8939]

Mother made them about once a month when I was growing up in South Arkansas. I remember they were a bit big and had flour on them. Nothing better than coming home for school and smelling them as I hit the porch. My mother grew up in North Louisiana, so the food she cooked had some French influence. However, I think it was more Southern. Thanks for baking tea cakes. .

[@yummboy2]

I have had this same recipe since about the mid 1970's, when it was shared with me by an elderly friend. She knew the recipe by heart, from making these cookies many times during her life, but she could not recall when she first learned it. She passed away in 1983 at the age of 91, having lived in east Texas all of her life. Your video brings back fond memories. Thanks for sharing.

[@sheilahackney6214]

My Grandma made those...so good!💞

[@rebeccadavis6812]

I remember my dad speaking of tea cakes that his mother would have made when they came home from school in the 1930's/40's. They grew up in an area between the Virginia line and the Raleigh/Durham area. He said he really liked those tea cakes but it was not a recipe my mother had or ever made. He said they were not cakes, like I thought the name meant, but rather it was like a cookie and really thin. I have asked several people in the family myself if they remember tea cakes or had a recipe and no one really had anything to offer. I will have to give Mr. Parris' recipe a try. Thank you for the video, the book reference and the recipe.

[@danielward5855]

As always tipper, your brilliant hon,. Thank you for posting these. I remember my grandmother made those cookies the same way.

[@CelebratingAppalachia]

Thank you Daniel 😀

[@jankitteringham8483]

Lovely video , Thankyou. 🥰🇬🇧

[@donnaelkins186]

.Enjoy John Paris stories ♥. I love your video's. Tea cakes are new to me. I will have to try. God bless.

[@pamelawooten3690]

I'm 64, and your glass looks like those that held jelly when I was in grammar school, mid to late 60s. Sour cream also came in glasses sometimes, but they tended to be wider at the top, and not quite so tall. Didn't have tea cakes as a kid in north FL, with grandparents from mid GA, but started making them as an adult, and love them!

[@CelebratingAppalachia]

Thank you 😀

[@charlottejones6885]

My mama made them as a special treat for us but she made them in her biscuit dough. Great memories

[@jericahasty324]

I just absolutely love your channel! My aunt and mother showed it to me and I immediately fell in love. Reminds me of growing up in South Georgia. You would make a wonderful cooking channel ♥️

[@CelebratingAppalachia]

Thank you so much!

[@ohnoyce]

This looks like a good recipe for my embossed rolling pin. I’ve been looking for one where the cookies don’t spread much so that the embossed design doesn’t get ruined. Thanks so much for sharing.

[@CelebratingAppalachia]

Oh I bet they will be so pretty 😀

[@southwife]

That's a very good idea. I have an embossed rolling pin too. Think how pretty that can be!

[@winnie8592]

This recipe here is from SC. Passed down the little piece of paper is browning on the edges. I got no relatives so I’ll share with y’all. Russian Tea Cakes Mix together: 1 cup soft butter, 1/2 cup sifted confectionery sugar, 1 tsp vanilla Sift together and stir in: 2 1/4 cup flour, 1/4 tsp salt Mix in 3/4 cup finely chopped nuts Chill dough and the roll into one inch balls. Place on ungreased cookie sheet. Bake until set, BUT not brown. While still warm roll in confection sugar. Cool Roll in confection sugar again. Oh almost forgot bake 10to 12 minutes or little less at 400. We always had these around Christmas or special occasions 🌻

[@CelebratingAppalachia]

Sounds so good-thank you!!

[@southwife]

Very like a Scottish Shortbread!

[@jrg4313]

Thank you for sharing this recipe!

[@winnie8592]

Well y’all are so welcome. It delights me to pass this on 😉

[@happyrapture1370]

Thank you winnie. I will write this recipe out with your name and story and share with my children and grandchildren. What a treasure, God bless and thank you.

[@kditty1023]

I'm from Georgia, and teacakes are definitely a memory for me. I remember my grandmother making them, but also coming home after school and making up a batch myself for my sisters and friends. They were so easy and always came out good. We didn't take the time to alternate wet and dry and usually used self-rising flour and they still tasted great to us teenagers!

[@vickiibendit943]

Oh, I love tea cakes!

[@CelebratingAppalachia]

😀

[@surrethauebel1682]

My tea cakes and the ones that I grew up with, were thicker. I roll the dough out in the cookie sheet to fill the cookie sheet. I cut them into squares, then bake them. Hence the name tea cake, being more cake like, not too sweet, and perfect with hot or cold tea.

[@kathrynjones9938]

My Welsh family makes Welsh tea cakes (cookies) or miners cakes. Very similar recipe but we add currants. The cakes are fried on a griddle. I really enjoy your videos.

[@ralphcline6930]

My grandma made these many years ago in n.e. Alabama. We would gobble them down out of the oven before they were cooled or set . Thank you so much for your channel. Blessings .

[@cathyrichmond6178]

My Grandma Richmond made tea cakes all the time. During the summers my sister and I stayed with my grandparents. Grandma taught my sister Judy to cook. They made tea cakes to serve to the field hands once a week. Theirs looked like yours only a little thicker. Being diabetic I don't eat tea cakes anymore but I'd love too. Thanks for the great memories.

[@CelebratingAppalachia]

Glad you've got those memories 😀 Thank you for sharing 😀

[@sissinoklahoma2057]

You can use Splenda in your recipe instead and have the cookies again!

[@randyfrederick1060]

Beautiful

[@cindysmith1162]

I remember my Grandmother making them. They were very crisp. She did say they came from the times when folks would have tea.

[@justjan147]

Smells and tastes from the kitchen are probably the most heartwarming memories I have of my great grandmother and grandmother on my mother's side. The excerpts you read from various books are beautiful. I enjoy them immensely. I've heard of tea cakes but not this particular kind, and what a unique recipe! I think I'll try them this holiday season. I wonder if you could shape the dough into a 2" in diameter roll and freeze it then thinly sliced it in 1/8th inch slices. Do you think that would work? Considering the amount of cakes you can make out of one recipe, as a single person it's nice to have cookie dough in the freezer ready to bake. I can use enough to make a few cookies, bake them in my toaster oven and have cookies for the week. I love reading the comments from other viewers. How kind it was for you to search out this recipe, speak to you relatives to see if they had any recollections of tea cakes in order to answer the requests of your subscribers to make these. I think this is why I love your channel. You must spend hours reading and replying to so many of us which creates this connection which I know we all greatly appreciate. Thank you so much for your kindness! Be well, stay safe and God bless you and your family. 😊🌻❤🙏🏻

[@CelebratingAppalachia]

So glad you enjoyed it! I do believe freezing would work 😀

[@timothyeldridge6822]

Excellent!

[@princessbuttercupp4233]

I LOVE your bowls!!!!!!!

[@conniebarber4582]

These look so good!! Thank you for sharing

[@dipstick5869]

My grandmother made tea cakes often. Simple, easy and not expensive ingredients. Her's were a bit thicker and softer. Thanks for reminding me so I can look through her recipe book and compare. 🤗

[@CelebratingAppalachia]

I bet her's were wonderful 😀

[@dipstick5869]

@@CelebratingAppalachia Yes, but I like crispy also!😋

[@CelebratingAppalachia]

@@dipstick5869 😀

[@cookielady7662]

My paternal grandmother made tea cakes. The ingredients are very similar to the ones in your recipe, but she dropped them instead of rolling them out. She often iced them with powdered sugar icing tinted with pink food coloring. Thanks for bringing back this sweet memory. ~ Betty

[@mobare6233]

Many memories tied to tea cakes and being in the kitchen with Granny Chastain,thanks Tipper

[@patriciafitton4894]

I’ve never made tea cakes but may try them. Had to chuckle when you mentioned snuff glasses. I have a few that belonged to my kids great grandmother who lived in Mississippi. She dipped snuff as did a lot of the women back in the day. I’m 76 and remember those days well, but I never dipped…yuck! ❤️

[@CelebratingAppalachia]

Thank you for watching!

[@benlaw4647]

Those tea cakes look so good! The only glasses we had to drink out of when I was growing up were the snuff glasses....yes , food brings back old memories I I read an article one time in national geographic about odors, and how odors we smell bring back more , deeper , longer memories than any of our other senses, it's like they take us back to that place and time or times, good and bad ....thanks tipper ...God bless..🙏

[@CelebratingAppalachia]

Thank you Ben! So true about smells 😀

[@Gran-T]

I remember getting glasses free out of detergent boxes. They lasted at least 40 years. Not sure what happen to them when Mama died.

[@benlaw4647]

Yep , those glasses too, and the jelly glasses from the store .....🙂👍

[@madibawayne6314]

These look great 👍

[@yvonnemcmahan9037]

Both my grandma's called those sugar cookies. I learned to make them when I was a young girl. We all loved them. Thank you for the recipe. My grandmother's and mom are all dead now. It warms my heart that you found the recipe and are sharing with us.

[@tammyjohnson7401]

Thank you. It is cookie season I will have to make a batch. Thank you 🤗❄️

[@oldgrizz8720]

When I was young I would spend time with my great-grandmother who came from England, she would make Tea Cakes and Tea for us to snack on in the afternoon. She would serve them with homemade jam. I always felt that this was a special time together.

[@ChrisBury20]

The only time I had Tea Cakes was one summer I went to church camp with my cousins. Their Mennonite Aunties had us over to their house for breakfast and they served us Tea Cakes. It's a great memory.

[@CuppaTea_UK]

Lovely ...

[@kathybrown6842]

My mother made yes cakes. We always got them fresh n hot from the oven. My dad always put butter on them.

[@censusgary]

These “cakes” would be perfect to have with tea, exactly because they are only mildly sweet. That lets the flavor of the cup of tea really come forward.

[@kathywolfe6606]

My grandmother hand patted them out with various thicknesses. Sometimes she used chocolate icing but they were great plain.