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Coffee Cake


(Yes, this is the one we got from Hildegard Biskey's Cookbook before returning and used to make all the time.)

375 ¤ oven 
35 minutes or your oven. Straw inserted in center comes out clean.
Grease 8" square pan.

1/ 1/2 cup flour

1/2 cup shortening (butter's better)

1 cup sugar

Mix together. Remove 3/4 cups of the above for Topping. 

Topping:

Add to the 3/4 cups: 

  • 1 tablespoons MELTED butter

  • 1 teaspoon Cinnamon

Stir together and reserve for topping. (Should be streusel-like lumpy.)

Base:

To remaining mixture at top, add:

  • 2 tsp Baking Powder

  • 1/2 tsp salt

  • 1 egg well beaten

  • 1/2 cup milk

Put base mixture into 8: pan. Spread topping on top. Bake.