My mother used to make tea cakes and wrap them in a tea towel, with pretty embroidery, too. Would you share your recipes? I love orange cake, and my mother used to make a fresh banana cake. It wasn't like banana bread, but had the taste of the good, fresh bananas. She put layers of sliced banans in the filling between layers and on top. I never could figure out why her bananas didn't turn brown. I know she didn't use lemon juice on them. Maybe it is because we ate those cakes so fast, they didn't have time to turn brown! Of course, back then, we could only make it when the stores could get bananas! One great-uncle who had a grocery store, specialized in fresh produce. He would get up at 4 a.m., or earlier, and drive 60 miles to Waco, to drive back with fresh produce for his store, every day except Sunday. Coconut cake is wonderful, too. At church suppers, there was a lady who used to make wonderful angel food cakes. She has been dead for years, but her neighbor just died a few weeks ago at 105. I asked the neighbor , a couple of years ago when she was only 103, if she had Miss Rita's recipe for angel food cake. She said they were at her home. But she had been living in a nursing home for quite a while. The contents of her home were just auctioned off. The lady told me that her specialty was sweet potato pies. She said that the secret to her pies were that she baked her potatoes instead of boiling them. Another thing that I just loved were orange chiffon pies. A great aunt used to make those when she would have the ladies in during hot weather get-togethers. We had two family favorites, that I usually don't see, that we had at holiday time, like Christmas. One was Waxey Pecan Cake, the other is Bakeless Cake. No one liked fruit cake, so one of my aunt's boyfriends, who operated a large bakery, would bring rum cakes, which he would get lectured about for bringing liquor to where there were children! I would sneak in the kitchen and pinch off pieces so I could have some of that good cake. A great aunt would make Waxey Pecan Cakes, for birthdays, Christmas, etc. instead of the fruit cakes. It depended on if eggs were short, if there were a lot of pecans that season-the things needed for her cakes. Cecelia >I don't remember getting a spanking.Granny only gave me chocloate snuff > in the summer. > My other grandmother was the baker in the family.I make her Fresh Orange > Cake and Fresh Coconut Cake now.My grandaddy made the best tea cakes.He > would wrap them in a clean tea towell.I have not made those in years. > Alot of trouble rolling and cutting those things out.I am thanful I > inherited their recipies > > >

I want to know how to make Tea Cakes ! Kevin