Southern Scratch and Hooch Lemonade with Tea Cakes - A Southern Belle's Way to a Man's Heart

Scratch and Hooch Lemonade
2 cups sugar
1 cup hot water
2 cups fresh squeezed lemon juice
1 gallon cold water
1 lemon, sliced
In a gallon container, place sugar and hot water, and stir until sugar dissolves. Add lemon juice and cold water to make 1 gallon. Stir until well mixed. When ready to serve, pour lemonade over glasses of crushed ice, squeeze slice of lemon on top of each. Put glasses in the freezer ahead of time so they will be chilled. Cheers! For a little added cheer – add 1 ¾ ounces Jack Daniels and ¼ ounce Triple Sec to each glass, fill with lemonade, swirl it around, add a spring of mint and enjoy! Now you’ve turned your Scratch into Hooch.
Every Southern Belle knows that a way to a man’s heart is through his stomach. And of course Southern traditions are passed down from generation to generation, so every daughter comes armed with a closely guarded arsenal of secret recipes. When it gets hot in the South, honey it gets humid and we need to replenish the water that we loose on those sweat dripping bad hair days with something to quench our thirst! Nothing says summertime in Dixie like lemonade. Why good lemonade is a real elixir that mixed with a little honey and good Tennessee whiskey can cure most sniffles and has mended many a broken heart.

Serve your lemonade with a tea cake, and it’s a delicacy that would please the most finicky of sorts. Now tea cakes are made from scratch too, if they’re good. Dust them with a whisper of nutmeg on top and lawsy mercy; you’ve created a bite of heaven on earth.

My friend, society hostess, philanthropist, stage star and southern belle, Lynda Evjen of Hendersonville TN ( by way of Ohio, Texas and California) shares her recipe for the tea cakes from her great grandmother. Lynda is always busy planning the menus for her dinner parties months in advance, adjusting every bite to taste, but at the party she hardly taste a thing as she’s playing the effervescent hostess. But once the last guest leaves, she props up her bare feet, enjoys a drink and savors one of her Mother’s Nannie Nell’s Tea Cakes along side her sweet husband, Dave.
Nannie Nelle’s Tea Cakes
5 – 6 cups flour; 1 1/2 teaspoons baking soda;
4 eggs; 1 teaspoon salt;
2 cups sugar; 1 cup thick buttermilk;
1 cup butter; 1 teaspoon vanilla
Put 5 cups of flour in a large mixing bowl. Make a well in the center. Add remaining ingredients to the well of the flour. Using a spoon (or your hand) gradually stir in flour as you mix the in the well of the flour. Continue until you make a stiff dough, adding more flour if needed. On a floured surface, roll out to about 1/8 in. thickness; cut into desired shape and bake on lightly greased baking sheets in a 350° oven just until light brown.

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