Tea Cakes (Hilda's)

Source: Hildagonda J. Duckitt, 1891

Instructions

  1. Have these ingredients ready: flour; 1 lb. of sugar; 4 eggs; butter; almonds; 1 doz. cloves, pounded; a teaspoonful of sifted cinnamon; a teaspoonful of soda; a teaspoonful of cream of tartar.
  2. Beat up the yolks and whites well.
  3. Mix with the butter and sugar and the almonds, pounded.
  4. Add the soda, cream of tartar, and spices to the flour dry.
  5. Mix all well with the hand, and put on buttered pans, about the size of a walnut, with the point of a knife.
  6. Bake for twenty minutes.

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