This section is from the book "Ye Kirke Cookerie", by First Methodist Church (Evanston, Ill.) Women's Union. Also available from Amazon: Ye Kirke Cookerie.
4 cups Gold Medal Flour 2 cups sugar 1 teaspoon baking powder.
Pinch salt 1/2 cup shortening 1 pint buttermilk 1 teaspoon soda.
Sift flour, sugar, salt and baking powder together, Crumb in the shortening. Take out one half cup of this mixture and fill the cup with brown sugar. Add spice and keep this to sprinkle on top. Add the buttermilk and soda, and beat well. Put in shallow pan and cover with the cup of crumbs and bake. Serve with Chase and Sanborn's coffee.
Mrs. Ernest F. Tittle.
2 cups flour 1/2 cup sugar.
4 teaspoons baking powder.
1/2 teaspoon salt.
2 tablespoons melted shortening 1 1/2 cups milk.
Mix dry ingredients, add milk and shortening. Beat well. Spread in tin and let stand while you mix 1 tablespoon cinnamon, 4 tablespoons sugar, 1 tablespoon butter and 1/2 cup chopped nuts. Spread over dough. Bake twenty minutes.
Mrs. W. E. J. Gratz.
A.
1 egg.
Scant half cup of sugar.
1 tablespoon melted shortening.
B.
1 1/2 cups Gold Medal flour 2 teaspoons baking powder 1/2 teaspoon salt.
C 1/2 cup of milk.
Beat A together. Sift B together. Into A beat B and C alternately. Pour into a square tin, sprinkle over top with granulated sugar mixed with cinnamon and a little salt. Let this stand half and hour, and bake half an hour.
Mrs. Walter Dill Scott.
1/2 cup sugar 2 tablespoons melted butter.
1 egg.
1/2 cup milk.
2 cups Gold Medal flour 1 heaping teaspoon baking powder 1 teaspoon vanilla 3/4 teaspoon salt.
Sift dry ingredients. Add milk, egg and shortening. Beat very thoroughly. Sprinkle cinnamon and sugar over top after putting it in the pan. Bake in a shallow pan about twenty five minutes .
Mrs. W. C. Gilbert.
With any of these coffee cakes, serve Chase and Sanborn's coffee and have a delightful breakfast.
 
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