Recipe for "coffee-cake-1"

NAME

     COFFEE-CAKE-1 - Coffee cake with cinnamon and sour cream
     I got this recipe from my mom.  She got it, I think, from my
     godmother.  All of us kids in the family make it now.  It is
     an unusual coffee cake, good to have with morning coffee  or
     as an evening dessert.  Enjoy it.

INGREDIENTS (Fills 25-cm tube pan)

     110 g     shortening
     150 g     sugar
     5 ml      vanilla
     3         large eggs
     200 g     flour, sifted
     5 ml      baking powder
     5 ml      baking soda
     250 ml    sour cream
     100 g     butter, softened
     200 g     light brown sugar, firmly packed
     10 ml     cinnamon
     200 g     chopped nuts (walnuts or pecans)

PROCEDURE

          (1)  Prepare a tube pan.  I use one  with  a  removable
               center.   Grease the pan and cut a circle of waxed
               paper to cover the bottom.
          (2)  Preheat oven to 175 deg. C.
          (3)  Cream shortening, sugar, and vanilla, thoroughly.
          (4)  Add eggs-singly-beating well after each addition.
          (5)  Sift  flour,  baking  powder,  and   baking   soda
               together.
          (6)  Add flour mixture and sour cream to  creamed  mix-
               ture.   Alternate a little of each, blending after
               each addition.
          (7)  In separate bowl, cream butter, brown  sugar,  and
               cinnamon together.  Add nuts and mix well.
          (8)  Spread 1/2 of the batter in the tube pan.
          (9)  Sprinkle 1/2 of the nut mixture evenly over batter
               in pan.
          (10) Cover with remaining batter.
          (11) Sprinkle with remaining nut mixture.
          (12) Bake in preheated oven for about 50 minutes.

NOTES

     When the cake cools, run a knife around the side of the  pan
     and  remove  the  inner  section.  Carefully remove the cake
     from the base of the pan and remove the waxed paper.

RATING

     Difficulty: moderate.   Time:  45  minutes  preparation,  50
     minutes  baking,  10  minutes  cooling.   Precision: measure
     carefully.

CONTRIBUTOR

     Andy Shore
     Adobe Systems Incorporated, Palo Alto, California
     decwrl!adobe!shore  shore@adobe.UUCP