Mother'S Old-Fashioned Tea Cakes - cooking recipe

Ingredients

2 c. sugar
1 c. butter or oleo
2 eggs
1 c. buttermilk
1/2 tsp. soda
1 tsp. salt
1 tsp. vanilla or lemon extract
3 1/2 c. unsifted flour
2 tsp. baking powder

Preparation

Cream sugar with shortening.
Add beaten eggs.
Dissolve soda in buttermilk.
Sift dry ingredients.
Add alternately with buttermilk to sugar mixture.
Drop by teaspoon on greased cookie sheet.
Bake at 350\u00b0; watch closely.
Yields 6 to 7 dozen.