Tea Time Tassies

Beaman Family, Dessert

Ingredients

Filling:

2 c. sugar

2 T. cornmeal

1/8 t. salt

3 eggs

1/2 stick margarine

1/3 c. buttermilk

1 t. vanilla


Pastry:

6 oz. cream cheese, at room temperature

2 sticks margarine

2 c. sifted flour

Directions

Filling:
Stir together the sugar, cornmeal, and salt.
Beat the eggs slightly and add to the sugar.
Beat in the margarine, buttermilk, and vanilla.
Spoon into the unbaked pastry shells, filling 3/4 full. Bake at 375 degrees for 25 minutes.

Pastry:
Cream the cream cheese and margarine until soft. Stir in the flour just until incorporated.
Chill the dough.
Roll out on a floured board.
Cut with a 3” cutter and fit into tiny muffin tins.

Notes

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When Alvin was a boy, he made a crystal radio. When the news that World War I was over was announced, he ran around the house shouting: “The Kaiser is dead! The Kaiser is dead!” (Jean Walker)