my grandmother's cherry biscuit cakes - kuchen

How To Make my grandmother's cherry biscuit cakes - kuchen

• Step 1
  Butter lightly a small 2 sided small cookie sheets. Drain the cherries and save the juice in the freezer for another project. Or prepare fresh organic sour cherries.
• Step 2
  Mix the flour, butter, sugar, and baking powder together by hand. Beat the egg white till frothy in a large measuring cup. Add milk to the cup till there is 1 cup of milk and frothy egg white total. Add to flour mixture and mix until all incorporated.
• Step 3
  Butter your hands lighty. Place dough in the center of the pan and press lighty till the dough evenly covers the cookie sheet and up the sides.
• Step 4
  Spread the cherries evenly over the dough.
• Step 5
  Mix the topping ingredients by hand. I do it with my fingers. Sprinkle topping over cherries evenly.
• Step 6
  Bake at 350 until done. About 25 to 30 mintues until the edges of the dough are a lovely golden brown. (not lightly golden) If it is just lightly golden then the bottom won't be done. Serve either warm or cold.
• Step 7
  The bottom should be lightly moist, that is normal. You can serve with a dab of whipped cream if you like with a sprinkle of cinnamon. Note: I use EX large fresh organic eggs. Large eggs today are not the large eggs our grandparents knew.
• Step 8
  I have used the same dough and topping recipe to make the recipe with sliced Plums, Apricots, thinly sliced Pears, Peaches, Apricots, and Nectarines and Apples. Sprinking cinnamon on top. Sometimes I use mixture of fruits. Just make sure the fruits are not overly ripe.
• Step 9
  Orginally my Grandmother, then my mother would bake this in four 7 1/4" wide x 11 1/4" long x 3/8" deep pans. Both always double the recipe to make four pans. I think because two pans never left enough go with morning coffee or a snack. My grandfather expertly make the pans for my grandmother in his hareware store as you couldn't buy these size pans here in the USA. I only have 3 of the pans, as my brother threw 1 away. I have 3 of of pans..unfortunetly when my Mom was dying my brother threw one away not knowing.
• Step 10
  Thank you, Grandma for some of the best foods I have growing up on.
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