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Thursday, April 27, 2023

Jam-Top Coffee Cake Recipe by Ruth Paget

Jam-Top Coffee Cake Recipe by Ruth Paget 

Serves 6 to 8 

Ingredients: 

-3 ¾ cups flour 

-1 teaspoon salt 

-1/3 cup sugar 

-1 (0.25-ounce) yeast cake dissolved in ¼ cup lukewarm water 

-1 cup scalded milk 

-2 beaten eggs 

-1/2 cup jam 

Steps: 

1-Preheat oven to 400 degrees Fahrenheit. 

2-Place flour, salt, and sugar in a bowl and mix thoroughly. 

3-Add yeast water to flour mixture. 

4-Add scalded milk to beaten eggs and mix well. Add flour and yeast mixture to milk and egg mixture and blend till a dough forms. Form dough into a loaf. 

5-Grease and flour a loaf pan. Place dough in the loaf pan. Spread jam along the top of the dough. 

6-Bake coffee cake for 10 minutes at 400 degrees Fahrenheit. Then, lower the heat to 350 degrees Fahrenheit and bake for 30 minutes. 

Source: Rose Pennington – circa 1950s 

By Ruth Paget, author of Eating Soup with Chopsticks and Marrying France


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