German Coffee Cake

Ingredients

• 3 cups flour
• ½ teaspoon salt
• 3 tablespoons sugar
• 2 scant teaspoons Royal Baking Powder
• 2 heaping tablespoons butter
• 2 eggs
• ½ cup milk

Method

1. 1

   Sift together flour, salt, sugar, and powder.

2. 2

   Rub in butter.

3. 3

   Beat eggs, add milk, stir into dry mixture, adding more milk if necessary to mix to very stiff batter.

4. 4

   Spread ½ inch thick in well-buttered shallow pan.

5. 5

   Mix together flour, sugar, and cinnamon for topping.

6. 6

   Rub in butter until crumbly.

7. 7

   Spread thickly over top of dough, bake about ½ hour in moderate oven.

Nutrition per serving

As published

This recipe was extracted from The royal baker and pastry cook (1902) by New York Cooking School, page 14. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

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