You should know something before we head into the kitchen: I don’t cook without a recipe, and I don’t bake, period (not unless you count tiny, soggy cakes from my 1960s Suzy Homemaker Oven or ...

Jeff Wynn co-owner of Dainty Cakes Food Truck showed their variety of old-fashioned tea cakes and talked about how he and his wife tried and failed at more than 40 recipes before getting just the ...

Fluffy, buttery, and shockingly tender, old fashioned tea cakes are more akin to a crossover between a biscuit and a cookie than they are to a cake. Our recipe calls for the zest of one lemon, adding ...

The syrup tea cake recipe comes from the memory of my 89-year-old mother who really makes them better than me." Original Tea Cake Recipe: 1 C. lard (1 C. shortening or 1 stick butter and 1/2 C.