Recipe - Dropped Tea Cakes

2 Sticks butter; softened
2 One fourth cup Sugar
4 Eggs
4 One half cup Allpurpose flour
1 teaspoon Baking powder
1 teaspoon Baking soda
1 teaspoon Ground nutmeg
One fourth cup Buttermilk
2 teaspoon Vanilla extract

Cream butter; gradually add sugar, beating well at medium speed of an
electric mixer. Add eggs, beating well. Combine flour, baking powder, soda
and nutmeg; add to creamed mixture alternately with buttermilk, mixing
well. Stir in vanilla. Drop dough by tablespoonfuls onto greased cookie
sheets. Bake at 375 degrees for 810 minutes or until lightly browned.
Cool. Yields 6 dozen. Margaret Kennard, Starkville, MS.

NOTE: Original recipe called for One half teaspoon nutmeg and 1 teaspoon
vanilla.

SOUTHERN LIVING, JUL 90

MODIFIED BY JUDY HOSEY

From a collection of my mother's (Judy Hosey) recipe box which contained
lots of her favorite recipes, clippings, etc. Downloaded from Glen's MM
Recipe Archive, http://www.erols.com/hosey.