Coffee Cake

Ingredients

• 3/4 cup sugar
• 2 cups flour, sifted
• 1 well beaten egg
• 1/2 teaspoon soda
• 1 cup buttermilk or sour milk
• 1/4 teaspoon nutmeg
• 3/4 cup melted butter
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 1 1/4 teaspoons baking powder
• 1/4 cup sugar
• 1/4 cup chopped nuts
• 1 teaspoon cinnamon
• bits of butter

Method

1. 1

   Bake in two pie tins twenty to thirty minutes and spread over top.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Delta Gamma cook book (1922), page 70. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

COFFEE CAKE AND GINGER BREADS Bishop's Bread 3 eggs 1 cup almonds not blanched 1 cup sugar 1}/^ cups flour 1 cup raisins 13^ teaspoons baking powder Mix eggs and sugar thoroughly, add other ingredients, put in shallow pan and bake in slow oven. Cut in strips while warm and leave in pan to cool. Margaret Jayne (Tau). Blitz KUchen }/2 cup butter 2 eggs % cup sugar rind 1 lemon, grated }/2 cup milk \}/2 cups flour, measured after sifting 3/2 teaspoon baking powder blanched almonds, cut lengthwise and mixed with sugar and cinnamon Cream butter, add sugar and beat well, stir in eggs, lemon rind, milk, and flour with baking powder, alternately. Spread in two biscuit tins, cover with almonds. Bake twenty minutes. Evelyn N. Walbridge (Omega Sigma). Almond Short Bread 1 pound flour pinch salt }/2 pound butter 5 ounces sugar 1 ounce blanched and chopped almonds Sift the flour and salt onto a baking board. Knead the butter and sugar together, then gradually draw in the flour, kneading well, add the almonds and knead again, keeping the lump firm in both hands. When all is worked up into a stiff paste cut it into three pieces and make each piece round, and about half an inch thick, pinch the edges, dust over with finely chopped almonds, and bake in a moderate oven until they are a nice brown color. The time depends on the thickness of the cakes — from one-fourth to one-half hour. Jean Mearns (Alpha Ganuna). 171 172 DELTA GAMMA COOK BOOK Scotch Short Bread )/2 cup sugar 2 cups flour 1 cup butter 1 teaspoon salt Cream butter and sugar, add flour and salt together. Bake in shallow tin. Cut while hot. Margaret Benton Eichhorn (Lambda Nu). Coffee Cake 3^ cup sugar 2 cups flour, sifted 1 well beaten egg }/2 teaspoon soda 1 cup buttermilk or sour milk ^ teaspoon nutmeg y^ cup melted butter 34 teaspoon salt 134 teaspoons baking powder Bake in two pie tins twenty to thirty minutes and spread over top; one-fourth cup sugar, one-fourth cup chopped nuts, one tea- spoon cinnamon, bits of butter. Julia B. Gould (Lambda Nu). Coffee Cake 1 cup very strong coffee 3 eggs 1 cup butter 13^ pints flour 2 cups sugar 3^ cup chopped citron \}/2 teaspoons baking powder 3^ cup milk 1 cup stoned raisins, cut in two 1 teaspoon allspice and 1 of nutmeg Bake in a hot oven fifty minutes. Louise Schriefer (Omicron). Coffee Cake 34 cup butter or oleo 2 eggs ]/2 cup sugar 13/^ cups flour pinch salt milk enough to make a soft dough, about 34 cup 1 heaping teaspoon baking powder Cream butter and sugar, add beaten eggs and milk, then dry ingredients, sifted together. Sprinkle top with sugar, cinnamon and chopped walnuts. Bake in shallow pan in hot oven, taking care to avoid burning. Lucia E. Lyons (Xi). COFFEE CAKE AND GINGER BREADS 173 Chocolate Ginger Bread 1 cup molasses 2 teaspoons melted butter ]/2 cup sour cream or milk J^ teaspoon salt 1 teaspoon soda, dissolved in 1 tablespoon water 1 teaspoon ginger 2 cups flom* 1 teaspoon cinnamon 4 tablespoons (2 squares) grated chocolate Mix in order given. Bake in a loaf in a moderate oven. Theodora Stark Carpenter (Lambda). Cold Tea Ginger Bread }/2 cup cold tea 3^ cup molasses ]/2 cup sugar 1^ cups flour 1 teaspoon soda 1 egg 14, cup butter Cream butter and sugar. Add other ingredients and add egg last. Grace Conners Nelson (Lambda Nu). Frozen Gingerbread 1 cup New Orleans molasses 1 cup sugar 1 tablespoon soda 1 cup melted lard 1 tablespoon cinnamon 2 eggs 2 tablespoons ginger 4 cups flour 1 cup boiling water Mix molasses, sugar, and lard, then spices, salt to suit taste, yolks of eggs, stir in all flour you can, add boiling water with soda dissolved in it, beaten whites of eggs last. This batter can be set in a cool place and kept for two weeks, and any quantity baked as desired. Susanna H. Parry (Alpha Beta). Molasses Ginger Bread 2]/2 cups flour ]/2 teaspoon nutmeg

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