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0:00
- Okay, Bobby, this is another retro recipe.
0:06
Southern tea cakes.
0:09
- Very retro.
0:10
They're so good.
0:11
- All right, so we're gonna stir together our flour,
0:14
and that's just extra flour, and that's our sugar,
0:19
and our baking powder and baking soda,
0:23
I believe, check that recipe, son.
0:25
- Baking flour-
0:26
- [Paula] Soda and powder.
0:27
- Four, baking soda, baking powder, yep.
0:30
- [Paula] And how much salt?
0:33
- I don't see salt.
0:34
- I don't have any salt in that recipe, but-
0:35
- Just a pinch, it'll always do ya.
0:38
- I like sweet and salty, so I'm going to do
0:41
maybe a 1/2 a teaspoon because we are cutting this recipe
0:45
in 1/2 'cause it makes so many.
0:47
So if you'd start your sifting.
0:50
- When did you, I don't know,
0:53
I don't know how I remember you doing tea cakes.
0:57
Where did this recipe come from?
0:59
- Oh my gosh, son, it's so old, I can't tell ya.
1:03
- Did you make 'em for us when I was a little kid?
1:05
- Oh my gosh, you don't remember.
1:07
It was just a big, white cookie.
1:11
- I do remember.
1:11
- [Paula] Just a big, white cookie.
1:12
- I do remember, but maybe that memory is blotted out
1:15
by the, the chocolate gobstoppers that you used to wrap
1:21
in Saran wrap and put in the refrigerator.
1:23
- Put in the refrigerator.
1:24
- Everything else is sort of shoved aside.
1:26
I think about how those things were so good.
1:28
- Okay, you wanna start doing that?
1:30
- So I'm sifting, I'm sifting, I'm sifting, I'm sifting.
1:31
- Yeah, sift, sift, sift.
1:33
- Okay, got it.
1:37
- Rather than pulling out a sifter,
1:39
I just use this little strainer sometimes,
1:44
you know, if I don't have a tremendous amount of flour.
1:47
- [Bobby] Well, what's the difference?
1:48
Just the sifter would have a handle on it
1:49
and sort of spin it around?
1:50
Well, this works just fine.
1:52
This is what you'd use for like powdered sugar
1:54
on top of a cake or something like that.
1:56
- Exactly.
1:58
- Or to wash your vegetables in.
1:59
I'd wash my vegetables in,
2:00
oh, look at that, there goes Aunt Peggy.
2:03
- Look here at great, great.
2:05
- Aunt Peggy, we're making tea cakes.
2:06
- What you doing?
2:08
- [Peggy] I came to see what I can sample.
2:11
(laughing)
2:12
- [Paula] Well, I just took tomato grits out of the oven.
2:15
- I'll try those.
2:16
- [Paula] C'mon.
2:17
- Just a small serving.
2:18
- All right, listen, how a serving like that size?
2:21
- [Peggy] That'll do it.
2:22
(laughing)
2:23
She eats like a bird, y'all.
2:27
Come on in.
2:28
- Okay, well we have sifted, this is done.
2:31
The only left is, you know what's left?
2:33
- What?
2:34
- Salt.
2:35
(laughing)
2:36
- Push it through because it's kosher.
2:38
It sure is.
2:39
- Why push it through when I can just dump it into my hand
2:40
and drop it in here?
2:42
- [Paula] Bobby, you are a little smart.
2:46
- Well, that's why I went to Harvard.
2:48
(laughing)
2:49
All those years ago, Aunt Peggy.
2:51
I bet you didn't know that, did ya, Aunt Peggy.
2:53
- [Peggy] I knew you when I was there.
2:55
- You went to Hardin.
2:57
(laughing)
2:58
- I went to Hardin.
3:01
- [Peggy] I'm waiting.
3:02
(laughing)
3:04
- [Paula] You don't even standing up.
3:06
- She's over there waiting on you
3:07
to bring her a bowl of grits.
3:08
- [Peggy] Yeah, I never run across the-
3:10
- Well, in the meantime I will be here making tea cakes,
3:13
which I've never read before, so, so far I've sifted flour
3:19
and I've sifted baking powder and baking soda.
3:24
And I've sifted some, how you doing?
3:27
(laughing)
3:28
Hey, I sifted some kosher salt.
3:30
You're looking good.
3:31
- [Paula] Doesn't she look good?
3:32
- She looks great.
3:33
Come on in and get some grits.
3:35
And
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now we have to add two eggs,
3:41
a 1/2 cup of buttermilk, and 1/2 stick of softened butter
3:45
and a little bit of vanilla, a teaspoon of vanilla.
3:50
- [Paula] Yeah.
3:51
- Yeah.
3:52
Did you catch all that?
3:53
- No, but I know you did.
3:55
- I got all the dry and we've sifted it,
3:57
so now we're going to add the rest of the ingredients.
3:59
- We've got to add one egg.
4:01
- Gotta add one egg.
4:01
- And let's beat this egg up with that 1/2 cup
4:04
of buttermilk, how about that?
4:05
- All right.
4:08
- And then y'all, we're gonna have to put this
4:10
in the refrigerator and let it sit for about an hour.
4:14
- We could make something else while we do that, right?
4:17
I love cooking with you.
4:20
I get all kinds of things that I never get.
4:23
Taste sugar and salt.
4:25
- Yes.
4:26
- Butter.
4:27
(laughing)
4:29
Almost forgot what it tasted like.
4:34
- All right, let's see.
4:36
Now when do we put in that butter?
4:41
- Everything now.
4:42
- And remaining ingredients, yes.
4:43
There we go, so we need a little vanilla.
4:46
- This is nice.
4:46
- That butter soft?
4:48
- It's nice and soft, so we'll just, before you add that,
4:53
let's see if you can incorporate that butter.
4:58
- Does everything have a stick of butter?
5:00
- Yes, son.
5:01
The original is two sticks,
5:03
but we're only halfing the recipe.
5:05
(laughing)
5:06
Don't give your mama no lip.
5:08
- No.
5:08
- Yeah, you wanna use pastry cutter.
5:11
- That's it.
5:11
- Yeah.
5:14
- Yeah, just do it that way, and you know what?
5:16
I'll go ahead and add the vanilla
5:18
to your egg and buttermilk too.
5:20
- Okay.
5:23
- [Paula] You know what?
5:24
I think I wanna put a little almond flavor in it too.
5:27
What do you think?
5:28
- [Bobby] I think it sounds good.
5:29
What's the-
5:31
- [Paula] Bobby, you have stepped in something sticky, son.
5:33
I hear you just talking.
5:35
- It's just clean, shoes are just clean.
5:38
- [Paula] Well, last night I found honey.
5:43
- So what is the, the flavor of a tea cake
5:46
is really kind of mild, isn't it?
5:48
I mean, there's not really a whole lot to it.
5:51
- Nope, it's very good and I just think, Bobby,
5:55
one of those recipes that started so, so, so long ago,
6:02
when you didn't have a lot of ingredients.
6:09
Women came up with, and men, I guess,
6:12
I'm sure some of the men were cooks.
6:15
But, you know, people just came up with what
6:18
they had to work with and they always had flour
6:24
and they always had eggs 'cause most people had chickens.
6:30
- Well, that butter mixed right in.
6:33
- 'Cause it was nice and soft.
6:37
Now this is gonna be wet and sticky,
6:39
you're gonna wanna change utensils.
6:42
- Try with the spoon or with a whisk, do you think?
6:46
- I'd go to a spoon.
6:50
Spoon it.
6:54
There you go.
6:56
It's so nice to have a man around the house
6:59
'cause sometimes mixing up stuff is hard.
7:07
- [Bobby] So we're going to combine all this together
7:09
and then we're gonna form it into like a disc,
7:14
like kind of just a big, flat ball.
7:17
And then we refrigerate for an hour, is that right?
7:19
- [Paula] Yeah, so we can roll it out.
7:22
- [Bobby] What's the reason for refrigerating it?
7:26
So it becomes- - [Paula] So it can get hard.
7:27
So we can roll it.
7:36
- Aunt Peggy, how's the grits?
7:38
- [Peggy] Good.
7:39
- [Paula] Yay, where ya going?
7:41
- [Peggy] Putting my (indistinct) out of my way.
7:44
- Oh, okay, now I need to push you up.
7:47
I'm just afraid to.
7:48
- [Peggy] Yeah, I know.
7:49
- [Paula] You need to sit back before I push you up
7:54
so I don't remove your breast.
7:56
- [Peggy] I like if you just let me hang out here.
8:01
(Peggy talking quietly in background)
8:04
- [Paula] Okay, so you're saying don't push ya.
8:08
- [Bobby] Okay, Mom, I think it's pretty well combined.
8:10
- [Paula] Okay, ooh, yeah, that's good.
8:12
So what I'm gonna do now is-
8:16
- [Bobby] Did we add the vanilla?
8:17
- [Paula] Yes, I added it to the buttermilk.
8:20
- [Bobby] I have stood here in eaten plums.
8:22
Mom's got all the plums on the counter right there
8:25
and I must've eaten seven.
8:27
- [Cameraman] Yeah, it was full.
8:28
- [Bobby] It was full, yeah.
8:30
- [Paula] The best plums I think I've ever-
8:32
- I've got a little bit of a-
8:34
- Oh no, a stomachache.
8:35
- Yeah.
8:36
- Well, if you have to run to the bathroom, I understand.
8:38
- No, no, I'm just kina like, like I ate too many plums.
8:45
- Well, they are so good.
8:46
- They're fantastic.
8:50
- So I'm going to get all that-
8:51
- I love fresh fruit juice.
8:52
I'll stand around and just eat fruit all day at our house.
8:55
We all do.
8:56
- I know it.
8:57
And little Ollie likes it as good as you.
9:00
- [Bobby] Oh my gosh, my kid (speaking faintly).
9:02
- [Paula] She just takes it.
9:03
She picks it up and crams it in her mouth.
9:05
(laughing)
9:07
- [Bobby] You should see that child eat.
9:10
- [Paula] All three of your children are good eaters.
9:12
- [Bobby] Yeah, I don't know where they get that from.
9:14
- [Paula] I don't know.
9:15
- Can you get a good closeup on Pearl's face?
9:17
Maybe we'll see where it all comes from?
9:20
Just throw in the food towards the face.
9:22
(laughing)
9:25
- That's all right.
9:26
- [Theresa] Paula, he's being mean,
9:27
you have flour all over your face.
9:28
- You've got flour all over your face.
9:30
- I do?
9:31
- [Theresa] That's why-
9:32
- I've gotta clean damn paper towel right here.
9:35
- Well aren't you used to do it.
9:37
- Well, aren't you used to doing that,
9:39
cleaning somebody's face all day, aren't ya?
9:40
- Well, I'm more concerned with the dagum floor
9:41
and the walls and the TV.
9:43
They can get it off their own faces.
9:45
They just throw it all in my kitchen.
9:48
- All right, look at that beautiful dough, y'all.
9:50
- Oh, it's perfect.
9:52
- [Paula] That is some pretty dough.
9:54
- [Bobby] That came together-
9:56
- [Paula] So easily.
9:57
- [Bobby] Just lickity split.
9:58
You know what? Hold on just a sec.
10:00
- [Paula] What?
10:01
- [Bobby] You've got a couple of,
10:02
you got one hanging on the wall over here.
10:05
- [Paula] Oh the banana pudding recipe.
10:07
- [Bobby] Yes, but I this-
10:08
- [Paula] But I didn't sew that one.
10:11
- But this is,
10:15
this is what we're making right now.
10:16
- Yes. Grandma's Tea Cakes.
10:18
- Grandma's Tea Cakes and this-
10:20
- That called for lard, Bobby.
10:23
I probably did that in the early, early '70s.
10:26
- Mama would have, I remember this hanging in our house
10:29
my whole life.
10:30
- Your whole life.
10:31
- I say our house, like we lived in one house,
10:34
that is not what I mean.
10:36
We moved all over the place.
10:38
- 23 times we moved.
10:39
- Every apartment that we lived in,
10:43
every house that we rented,
10:45
every place that we hung our hats,
10:48
I remember Grandma's Tea Cakes crochet,
10:52
is that the word you use?
10:53
- [Paula] No, cross stitch.
10:54
- Cross stitch, handing in every, look at that.
10:56
- [Paula] Every kitchen we had.
10:58
- I mean, look at that.
10:59
- Where did you find that?
11:00
I can't remember where it is.
11:01
- And this is the original frame, obviously.
11:04
- Oh gosh, yeah.
11:06
I wonder if it has the date on it.
11:07
- No way that I can see, it doesn't have one here.
11:11
There's no tellin'.
11:12
I wonder if there's $100 hidden in here someplace.
11:16
I'd be willing to make a bet that there is no.
11:19
- There is not.
11:19
- No, no.
11:21
- [Paula] I'd be surprised if you found $1.
11:25
- Yeah, me too.
11:26
Looks like somebody's already checked,
11:28
so if there was one there, it's long gone.
11:31
- You know, son, I do remember that day
11:33
you came over to my house.
11:34
You were living with one of your buddies at that time.
11:38
You came home, you said, "Mom, I'm so hungry."
11:41
And I said, "I am too, son."
11:43
- How come I didn't look like it?
11:44
(laughing)
11:45
I guess we ate all the starches.
11:49
And you said, "I'm so hungry."
11:51
And I said, "I am too, son."
11:53
I said, "Let me go to our change drawer
11:57
"and see if I can get up enough money for us
12:00
"a number two at McDonald's."
12:05
And in the bottom of that little bitty change,
12:08
in that white jewelry box,
12:10
I found a $50 bill that I had.
12:13
Bobby me danced all over that living room.
12:16
And he got in his car and he went to McDonald's and got us
12:20
two or maybe three number twos.
12:22
- I remember, that would have-
12:23
- I got a number two.
12:25
- That would have been,
12:26
we got a lot of number twos in our life.
12:28
(laughing)
12:29
- Yeah, we got a lot of number twos.
12:30
- That would have been about 1990, maybe? '89?
12:36
'88, '89, something like that.
12:38
Ah, who cares.
12:39
Alright, so Grandma's Tea Cakes.
12:40
That's what we're making now,
12:41
into the fridge for about an hour,
12:43
so we're gonna go and we'll be back in about an hour.
12:45
- Yes.
12:47
Okay, y'all I'm going to finish up those Southern tea cakes
12:52
by myself 'cause Bobby had to leave,
12:55
but I'm doing this a little different from the recipe.
13:02
It says to roll 'em out, y'all,
13:05
but you know what, to slice 'em is so much easier.
13:11
So that's what I'm gonna do rather than rolling them out
13:14
and then sticking and having to, it's just a mess.
13:18
So this is the way we're gonna do our tea cakes.
13:22
And like I said earlier,
13:24
they just a plain cookie that all the housewives,
13:30
the women doing the cooking, or the men.
13:33
They always had these particular ingredients,
13:36
so nothing fancy.
13:41
And they're just a big round cookie.
13:46
He's kind of flattened on one side,
13:48
so I'm having to kind of give 'em another little shape.
13:54
- [Cameraman] Tea biscuits.
13:55
- Tea biscuits, yes, tea biscuits.
13:59
That looks like biscotti.
14:00
- [Cameraman] Yeah.
14:01
- Ooh, I made some of Greg Cantor's
14:07
biscotti the other day, y'all.
14:10
It was the best I've ever eaten.
14:12
So go to Greg's Kitchen,
14:16
I think is how his Facebook page reads.
14:21
You will not be sorry.
14:23
He is a friend of mine and that boy knows he can cook.
14:27
So Greg's Kitchen.
14:29
And it was peanut butter.
14:35
Peanut butter.
14:36
- [Cameraman] White chocolate.
14:37
- And white chocolate biscotti.
14:40
And Greg sent me some in the mail and I said,
14:43
"Ooh, I got to have this recipe, I got to call him."
14:46
And he said it's on his website.
14:49
So we went to his website and sure enough,
14:51
there it was first recipe that came up.
14:55
So Greg, I thank you so much.
14:59
All right, this one looks a little shy,
15:01
so I'm gonna come down here and get a little bit more
15:05
and stick up underneath that one.
15:14
This is also a good cookie that you could,
15:18
if you wanted to roll it out, you could do it for Christmas.
15:24
Do it in Santa Claus shapes or,
15:28
that one's a little thin, too.
15:32
(dog barking)
15:33
And there we go.
15:35
There they go.
15:36
(laughing)
15:39
So we're gonna put this in the oven at 350.
15:43
I can't remember for how long Theresa.
15:45
It's been so long since I made a tea cake.
15:48
- [Theresa] Where's my recipe?
15:49
- But Bobby showed y'all earlier.
15:52
- [Theresa] 10 to 12 minutes.
15:53
- Okay, 10 to 12 minutes.
15:54
You wanna set that timer, Theresa?
15:56
- [Theresa] I certainly will.
15:59
- Bobby showed y'all the cross stitch that I did
16:05
for the tea cake recipe.
16:08
I did that back in the '70s, early '70s-
16:13
- [Theresa] You wanna put 'em in?
16:13
- When I used to make 'em.
16:14
Yes, Theresa would like for me to put 'em in the oven.
16:20
- [Theresa] They're home cooked.
16:20
- Did Bobby 'bout drive you crazy talking.
16:23
- [Theresa] No.
16:24
- You sitting there and waiting for him to shut up.
16:26
- [Theresa] No, not at all.
16:28
I like his stories.
16:30
- I do too.
16:32
I love his stories.
16:35
Okay, 10 minutes.
16:37
I think I let these cook for like 12 minutes.
16:41
The recipe called for 10,
16:45
But I think 12 was the magic number.
16:50
So you see, these are just very, very
16:55
plain, unpretentious, delicious cookies.
17:05
And you could certainly dress 'em up.
17:09
You could brush 'em with some egg white and put sprinkles
17:13
on 'em or something like that.
17:14
Or like I said, you could roll them out
17:16
like the recipe tells you to do into different shapes,
17:22
but to me a tea cake should look just like this.
17:31
Perfect.
17:35
Perfect. Perfect.
17:37
Almost looks like a flat biscuit, doesn't it?
17:41
- [Theresa] Strawberries and whipped cream
17:43
will be fabulous with it.
17:44
- Oh gosh, yes.
17:45
This would make a powerful good strawberry shortcake.
17:49
Just pour some sweetened strawberries on top
17:51
and a scoop of vanilla ice cream
17:54
and then some fresh whipped cream on top.
17:59
It would be so good.
18:02
So that's it.
18:03
But those of y'all that have never had a tea cake,
18:07
please think about trying this recipe
18:10
'cause I've been making it for a hundred years
18:12
and Bobby went into the laundry room and found this,
18:15
that he showed y'all earlier.
18:17
Something I did back in the '70s
18:19
because I made a lot of tea cakes.
18:23
So that's it.
18:26
Y'all enjoy, have a wonderful day, stay safe
18:30
and I'll see y'all next time.
18:33
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