Vintage Tea Cakes

I'm on the lookout for cupcake recipes and while riffling through old cookbooks, found a recipe for tea cakes that looked promising...
Here is the recipe from the book and some photos of these cute cakes that go well with a bit of jam.

Vintage tea cakes

Stove / BBQ:
Pre heat to 215 degrees Celsius.
In the stove 12 patty cases in a metal muffin tray works.
in the BBQ place patty cases in a greased flexy tray on a lamington tray, preferably over the grill element so there's not too much metal touching metal. Do not use the burners directly und the tray.

Ingredients:

• ​1 and 1/2 cups plain flour plus a half of a 1/3 cup (the recipe calls for a 1\2 pound, which is 3 and 1/3 cups from what I goggled and I confess I don't use scales 😳)
• 2 eggs, beaten
• 3 tablespoons sugar
• 2 tablespoons butter
• 1 and 1/2 teaspoons of baking powder
• 177ml of milk (see notes)

​Method: cream sugar and butter, add bashed up eggs then mix, add milk, then mix, mix flour and baking powder together, then sift into butter mixture, mix together. Add vanilla essence, put one tablespoon of mixture into each party case and bake in oven for 10 minutes.

Notes:

• ​Why 177 ml? Because the original recipe calls for a gill and a half... I had to google gill...
• The batter seemed quite thick, the cakes are like a cross between a cupcake and a scone.
• I added vanilla essence to the original recipe, for something extra.
• I didn't add the salt from the recipe - that's right Aunt Mary! ... I don't have table salt in the pantry, I just don't like using rock salt in cakes, seems weird... Add a pinch if you want to go old school.
• If I make them again I will put some cinnamon sugar on top and maybe a couple of bite sized pieces of apple in them, they lack that special something in taste.

The cookery book, who is Aunt Mary?

Original recipe FYI, left page, second down.