Lemon Tea Cake | Saveur

Lemon Tea Cake | Saveur

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This updated take on a classic lemon tea cake recipe is featured in Toni Tipton-Martin’s cookbook, Jubilee: Recipes from Two Centuries of African American Cooking.

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Ingredients

  • 2 sticks unsalted softened butter, plus more for greasing the pan
  • 3 cups (14½ oz.) all-purpose flour, plus more for dusting the pan
  • 1 tsp. kosher salt
  • ½ tsp. baking powder
  • ½ tsp. baking soda
  • ¾ cup fresh lemon juice, divided
  • 1 cup buttermilk
  • 1 tsp. vanilla extract
  • 2½ cups (1 lb. 3½ oz.) sugar, divided
  • 5 large eggs
  • ¼ cup finely grated lemon zest
  • 3 Tbsp. plus 1 ½ tsp. fresh lemon juice
  • 2 cups (8 oz.) confectioners’ sugar, sifted

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