Tea Bread

Here is a closer look at the delicious cranberry tea-bread. ❋ Nupur (2005)

But now she slept in the next bed over from Sarah's, and they shared many late-night giggles and confidences, instead of leftover tea-bread. ❋ Lackey, Mercedes (1999)

Mrs. Gaskell's "Cranford" is full of the most delicate but veritable humor, as her allusion to the genteel and cheerful poverty of the lady who, in giving a tea-party, "now sat in state, pretending not to know what cakes were sent up, though she knew, and we knew, and she knew that we knew; and we knew that she knew that we knew she had been busy all the morning making tea-bread and sponge-cakes." ❋ Kate Sanborn (1878)

Jacobi laughed too, kissed Elise's hand, and then hastened to mingle in the group of young people, who assembled themselves round the tea-table to see and to pass judgment on an extraordinary kind of tea-bread wherewith Louise would welcome her bridegroom, and which, according to her opinion, besides the freshest freshness, was possessed of many wonderful qualities. ❋ Fredrika Bremer (1833)

It's good stuff but it's nothing like the tea-bread I've been making recently. ❋ Unknown (2009)