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nut crumb coffee cake from 1939-no eggs

(2 ratings)
Recipe by
Pam Kliiger
Riverside pop 425, TX

This recipe is a budget cake, I found the book from 1939 at a resale shop, it has become a gold mine for me. The title is "ALL ABOUT HOME BAKING"I will add the changes I made to this due to not having one of the items it calls for.I was so surprised that it had so few items in it and so good, hope all that love the older recipes will enjoy this as much as we do. Last I can see this being used with many flavors and adding fresh fruit on top.

(2 ratings)
yield 8 serving(s)
prep time 15 Min
cook time 45 Min
method Bake

Ingredients For nut crumb coffee cake from 1939-no eggs

  • 2 cups
    cake flour
  • 2 teaspoon
    baking powder
  • 1/2 teaspo
    salt
  • 3 Tabl
    butter or other shortening
  • 1 cup
    sugar ( you can sub powered sugar for reg sugar as well
  • 1 cup
    milk
  • 1/2 teas
    vanilla (i use a bit more)
  • 2 tabl
    sugar
  • 3/4 teas.
    cinnamon
  • 3/4 cup
    bread crumbs ( i used the plain store bought)
  • 2 tabl
    butter melted
  • you can add nut meats

How To Make nut crumb coffee cake from 1939-no eggs

  • 1
    just a quick note on cake flour, on this site I found a way to make cake flour. The lady that posted it is from Alaska, to make it 1 cup flour and 1 tablespoon corn starch to each cup of flour, the key to making it cake flour is the sifting, I did mine 8 times, works really well.
  • 2
    Sift flour once measure, then add baking powder,salt, sift again. cream butter add sugar small amounts at a time cream well. Add flour alternately with milk, beating after each addition until smooth. Add vanilla.Pour into a 8x8 pan.
  • 3
    TOPPING blend the melted butter, bread crumbs, sugar and cinnamon, sprinkle over the top, add nuts, let it sit about 5 mins then cut and serve. note from the book, this is rich, sweet(but not real sweet) and tender,
  • 4
    One would think this is a heavy cake, it's not, after it sits for the 5 mins. it is light and tender, I would like to add I did this with powder sugar as well I found the texture is finer, also I used lemon flavoring in place of the vanilla, when I did the lemon, I made a lemon glaze(lemon juice, powder sugar) added some while still hot then added a bit more later after cooling, I can't tell you how well this is for any fast and easy desert, I plan on adding almond extract the next go, I think this would do well for adding fresh fruit and a spoon of topping as a nice desert, I also tried this in a longer pan, it makes it thinner and cooks faster, for the pan I used I would say it was about 20-25 mins, pan size was a 9x11 cookie sheet with 1/2 sides. it's called a 1/4 sheet pan.

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