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
