Skillet Upside Down Cake

Ingredients

• 1/3 cup butter
• 2/3 cup sugar
• 2 eggs- separated
• 3 tsp. baking powder
• 1/3 tsp. salt
• 5 tsp. vanilla
• 2/3 cup water
• 15 cups flour

Method

1. 1

   Cream butter, add sugar, beaten egg yolks, and vanilla.

2. 2

   Sift together flour, baking powder, salt, and add to first mixture alternately with water.

3. 3

   Fold in stiffly beaten egg whites.

4. 4

   In a 10 inch iron skillet or baking pan, melt 4 tbsp. butter, add 1 cup brown sugar.

5. 5

   When thickened, add pineapple, crushed or sliced.

6. 6

   Pour batter over fruit and bake about 35 minutes in a moderate oven.

7. 7

   Remove to cake plate, turning upside down so that fruit will be on top.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Recipes from our hearth (1960) by N.C.) Advent Moravian Church (Winston-Salem, page 8. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

SKILLET UPSIDE DOWN CAKE 1/3 cup butter 3 tsp. baking powder 2/3 cup sugar 1/3 tsp. salt 2 eggs- separated 5 tsp. vanilla 2/3 cup water 15 cups flour

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