PAU3A!
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Recipe: Any Fruit Coffee Cake By: Lucianne Phillips
4 cups chopped fruit (apples, apricots,
peaches, pineapple, whole blueberries or
plums)
1 cup water
2 T lemon juice
1-1/4 cups sugar
1/3 cup cornstarch (if you can't find cornstarch, you can also use flour for thickening)
3 cups flour
1 cup sugar
1 TBSP baking powder
1 TSP salt
1 TSP ground cinnamon
1/4 TSP ground mace (or nutmeg)
1 cup butter or margarine (= 2 sticks of butter = 1 package of 250 grams butter)
2 slightly beaten eggs
1 cup milk
1 TSP vanilla
1/2 cup sugar
1/4 cup butter or margarine (=1/2 stick of
butter = 1/4 package of 250 grams butter)
1/2 cup chopped walnuts
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F or 175 degrees C
Grease a 13x9x2 inch baking pan or two
8x8x2 inch pans
In a saucepan combine choice of fruit and
the water. Simmer covered about 5 minutes
or till fruit is tender. Stir in lemon juice. Mix
1-1/4 cups sugar and cornstarch; stir into
fruit mixture. Cook and stir till thickened and
bubbly. Cool
ALTERNATIVE TO THE ABOVE: USE ANY
FRUIT JAM FROM THE MARKET
In a mixing bowl, stir together 3 cups flour, 1
cup sugar, baking powder, salt, cinnamon
and mace. Cut in the 1 cup butter (use 2
knives and slice them in opposite directions) till the mixture resem bles fine
crumbs.
Combine eggs, milk and vanilla. Add to
flour mixture, mixing until blended. Spread
half of the batter in the greased
pan. Spread the cooled fruit mixture over
the batter. Spoon the remaining batter in
small mounds over the fruit mixture,
spreading out as much as possible.
Combine the 1/2 cup sugar and 1/2 cup
flour; cut in the 1/4 cup butter till the mixture resembles fine crumbs. Stir in the
nuts. Sprinkle the nut mixture over batter
in pan.
Bake at 350F (175C) for 45-50 minutes
until cake tests done (toothpick or knife
inserted comes out clean and dry). It can
take longer, depending on the oven.
Suggestions: The topping tends to expand
and drip. Put a cookie sheet covered with
foil under the baking pan for easier clean
up. Also, the pan will be easier to clean if
you soak it in water.