There’s something deeply nostalgic about a plate of Old-Fashioned Tea Cakes—the kind that feel right at home on a Southern dessert table or tucked inside a lunch tin. Soft, buttery ...

The caramel-colored foam froths to the surface and Harold Schexnayder, who is 90 years old, skims it off with a net. He’s been making cane syrup for about 20 years — a hobby he started after a ...