Buttermilk Coffee Cake Recipe by Ruth Paget
Serves 6 to 8
Ingredients:
-2 ½ cups flour
-1 teaspoon salt
-2 teaspoons baking powder
-1 teaspoon baking soda
-2 cups brown sugar
-1 teaspoon cinnamon
-1 teaspoon nutmeg
-1 cup buttermilk
-2 beaten eggs
-2/3 cup softened butter
Steps:
1-Preheat oven to 375 degrees Fahrenheit.
2-Place flour, salt, baking powder, baking soda, sugar, cinnamon, and nutmeg in a large bowl and mix well.
3-Mix buttermilk and beaten eggs together. Add buttermilk mixture to dry ingredients and thoroughly mix.
4-Add butter to batter and thoroughly mix to blend.
5-Grease a 9-inch square pan and shake flour in it to coat bottom and sides. Pour batter into the pan and bake for 35 to 40 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean.
Source: Rose Pennington – circa 1950s
By Ruth Paget, author of Eating Soup with Chopsticks and Marrying France
