I don’t remember Mom making coffee cake. Probably the first time I had it was in Home Ec class in high school. I guess an appropriate time to have coffee cake would have been about 4 o’clock in the afternoon. More often than not, Mom and Dad stopped to have coffee and maybe some boughten sugar cookies. I enjoyed joining them, although my coffee had more sugar and milk in it than coffee.
Coffee Cake
Dear Hope: Struessel Coffee Cake
Three-quarter cup sugar
1/4 cup butter or oleo
1 1/2 cups flour
1 egg, well beaten
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup milk
3 teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon vanilla
Sift dry ingredients together, cut in shortening, until like corn meal. Add milk and eggs. Pour one-half the batter in pan, cover with one-half of filling, then the rest of the batter, finish with the other half of filling on top.
Streussel filling
One-half cup brown sugar
1/2 cup nuts
2 tablespoons flour
2 tablespoons melted butter
2 teaspoons cinnamon.
Mix all together and use as directed.—Just Ester, Iowa
