RECIPIE: Noreme's Coffee Cake

NOREME'S COFFEE CAKE

Noreme is an old friend of my mother, someone she went to college with in the late 1940s. So, this recipe has been tested by my family since then...

1 stick oleo (or butter)
1 cup sugar2 eggs
1 tsp vanilla
1 cup sour cream
2 cups flour
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp baking powder

Mix sugar and oleo until puffy. Add eggs, vanilla and sour cream, then beat. Add dry ingredients and mix. Pour half of batter into greased baking pan (a loaf shaped pan).

Mix ¹/₂ cup sugar with tsp cinnamon. Pour half of this over the batter.
Put remainder of batter into pan and pour remaining topping over this batter. Bake in 350 F oven for 45 to 55 min. Put a clean knife blade into the centre of the cake and if it comes out clean, the cake is done.

Pull it out and put it on the top of the stove (or other heat proof place), let cool, slice, smear with butter (or whatever you call that white stuff) and enjoy!