I enjoy your column very much. My family has enjoyed many of your recipes. I hope you can find one for me. My children like the old-fashioned tea cakes. However, their favorite is the recipe that a ...

Every Southern cook I know has a different way of making tea cakes. Even my grandmother and her sister, Earnestine, had different recipes for the delicately flavored sweet treats. Aunt Earnestine’s ...

Frances Barkley of Nashville, who grew up in Vestavia Hills, created the recipe. "I originally baked tea cakes for family and friends as gifts," she says. In 1992, while in the midst of a divorce, she ...

If you’re still contemplating a locally based food product to give for holiday presents, might I make another suggestion? Jeff Stewart has been making a successful line of ice creams under the name of ...

Endlessly adaptable, tea cakes have long offered bakers across the country a moment of restoration. By Korsha Wilson The tea cake rarely gets its flowers. It’s not flashy or trendy. It doesn’t stand ...