Some of my favorite childhood memories center around my mother's Old Fashioned Tea Cakes.  A southern dish, they are simple, easy-to-make and relatively low-sugar, for such a sweet treat.

If you decorate them with icing, the sugar content jumps.  But if you paint them with colored evaporated milk, they are pretty, shiny and delicious, without being laden with sugar.

Only six ingredients: shortening; sugar; eggs; milk; vanilla and self-rising flour. And you just mix those six things together, add enough flour to get a stiff dough, then roll it out and cut it with cookie cutters.  Then bake for 6 minutes or so. Gotta love these simple recipes.

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Old Fashioned Tea Cakes