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

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

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.

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.

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.

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 💖)

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.

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❤️

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. 😊

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

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.

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 🙂.

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.

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😃

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.👍🏻

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.

My Mother used to make teacakes when I was a child. My Mother died suddenly at age 54 and her recipe went with her. She never wrote it down. It was all from memory.

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! ❤️

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

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!!

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

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.

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!

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!

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.

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.

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.

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 !

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

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.

These look so good!! Thank you for sharing

I LOVE your bowls!!!!!!!

Excellent!

These look soooo good😊

These look great 👍

Beautiful

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 ❤

Lovely ...

Another great video 💕✌️🌱

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

Lovely video , Thankyou. 🥰🇬🇧

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

I've never heard of these, but I've been baking a lot lately. Will have to give these a shot! Thank you

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

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.

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.

Finally got to watch all the way through. I would definately like to try tea cakes. Those would go great with my coffee.thanks tipper.love from Duncan Oklahoma.

Nice easy little cookie! Thanks for sharing!

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.

I love your kitchen and really enjoy these videos.

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 🌼

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 🌻

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

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.

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

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

My Grandma made those...so good!💞

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.

I’m going to start a playlist of all the vids of the cool things you make and do, and I’m going to challenge myself to do them too! I’ll start small, so maybe this vid is a good place. I just found your channel about a week ago, and I’m loving it and your daughters’ channel too!

Teacakes are my favorite cookies. I've never had a recipe till now thank you

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.

Another good recipe on my list to try. I don't remember having them, but they could jog my memory when I taste them. Lol. My grandma had the small swanky glasses with the lovely various flower's. I do have a few of hers. Kraft pimento cheese might have been in some of your plain glasses as well? Love those glasses, too. Thanks for baking for us, today!

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.

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!

Hey Tipper! Just got home and seen you put up a new video! Excellent as always! A BIG THANK YOU for all that you share, you all are AWESOME!!!!

Just found you’re channel and I love it. You have inspired me to get in my kitchen.

I just love your Texas Ware bowls. I enjoy your stories and your recipes so much, thank you for sharing.

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.♥️🙏

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.

I’ve always wanted to make tea cakes. I will try this recipe. Keep them coming, I love these videos! 😊

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.

My grandmother made tea cakes often, delicious!

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.

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

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

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

Great video! It does look like it would make a bunch! ♥️♥️

Wow that made alot ...I need to try and share!

Thank you

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!

Thank you!!!!! I will give this one a try. god bless.

My mom called these Russian tea cakes, they had a filling like mincemeat ,here in California, the Mexican culture makes Empanadas, TASTY !

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.

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. 🤗

God Bless you all.

I love the mixing bowls you are using. I would like to find some like those. Thanks for another wonderful recipe and demonstration.

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.

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

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.

Its been a really long time , over fifty years, and the ones I remember were much softer. The dough looks the same. I never learned the recipe from my Grandma but it was similar. thanks for the video. I would love to have one warm from the oven!

I always learn somerhing when I watch your videos. I am so envious of you! You have a John Parris cookbook! I have looked everywhere and can't find one. I was able to buy More Than Moonshine and the cookbook by Joseph E. Dabney, which I love! Thanks for all of your hard work.😊

I’ve heard of tea cakes but have never eaten one. Looks like a good recipe. Thanks Tipper!💕

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 .

I love tea cakes, lots of recipes around. My grandmothers had buttermilk and nutmeg involved, yummy!

Great memories Tipper. Thanks for sharing. Great cakes.

Look yummy!

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

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

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!