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Coffeecake: 1959 City School Sour Cream Coffeecake

Source of Recipe

From an article in the LA Times


Recipe Introduction

Here's the recipe as provided by the Los Angeles Unified School District archives. As a matter of record the sour cream coffeecake has been served in city school cafeterias since 1959.

List of Ingredients

1 1/2 c. Cake flour

1/2 c. All Purpose Flour

1 Tsp. Baking soda

1 Tsp. Baking powder

1/2 c. Butter

1 c. Sugar

1 Egg, lightly beaten

1 Tsp. Vanilla

1 c. Sour cream

---TOPPING---

1/4 c. All Purpose Flour

3/4 c. Brown sugar; packed

1/4 Tsp. Salt

1 c. Chopped walnuts

1/4 c. Butter




Recipe

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

All ingredients should be at room temperature.

In bowl mix together flours, soda and baking powder.

In another bowl cream together butter with sugar until fluffy and light. Add egg and vanilla and mix well. Add half of dry ingredients, mixing just until flour is blended. Blend in sour cream, then remaining dry ingredients.

Spread half of batter lightly into a 10-inch tube pan. Sprinkle with half of Topping and spread with remaining batter. Sprinkle with remaining Topping.

Bake at 350 degrees 40 to 45 minutes.


TOPPING: Mix together flour, sugar, salt and nuts. Add butter in small pieces. Rub in by hand until mixture is crumbly. Be careful not to over mix.


Each serving contains about: 580 calories; 331 mg sodium; 85 mg cholesterol; 34 grams fat; 66 grams carbohydrates; 7 grams protein; .77 gram fiber.


By: Rose Dosti, L.A. Times, Culinary SOS, in response to, If I were dying I would want the coffee cake served in the junior and senior high schools in Los Angeles as my last meal. Do you by chance have the recipe."