Recipe - Any Fruit Coffee Cake

4 cup Apples, apricots, peaches,
chopped pineapple
or whole blueberries
1 cup Water
2 tablespoon Lemon juice
1 One fourth cup Sugar
1/3 cup Cornstarch
3 cup Allpurpose flour
1 cup Sugar
1 tablespoon Baking powder
1 teaspoon Salt
1 teaspoon Ground cinnamon
One fourth teaspoon Mace
1 cup Butter
2 Eggs, slightly beaten
1 cup Milk
1 teaspoon Vanilla
One half cup Sugar
One half cup Allpurpose flour
One fourth cup Butter
One half cup Walnuts, chopped

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

In a saucepan, combine choice of fruit and the water. Simmer, covered,
about 5 minutes or until fruit is tender. Stir in lemon juice. Mix the 1
One fourth cups sugar and cornstarch; stir into fruit mixture. Cook and stir until
thickened and bubbly. Cool.

In a mixing bowl, stir together the 3 cups flour, 1 cup sugar, baking
powder, salt, cinnamon, and mace. Cut in the 1 cup butter until mixture
resembles fine crumbs. Combine eggs, milk, and vanilla. Add to flour
mixture, mixing until blended. Spread half of the batter into a greased
9x13 baking pan or two 8x8 baking pans.

Spread the cooled fruit mixture over the batter. Spoon the remaining
batter in small mounds over the fruit mixture, spreading out as much as
possible, Combine the One half cup sugar and One half cup flour; cut in the One fourth cup
butter until mixture resembles coarse crumbs. Stir in nuts. Sprinkle nut
mixture over batter in pan. Bake 4550 minutes for a 9x13 pan or 4045
minutes for the two 8x8 pans, or until cake tests done. Cool.

Recipe By: Better Homes and Gardens Cookbook

Per serving: 786 Calories; 32g Fat (36% calories from fat); 9g Protein;
118g Carbohydrate; 126mg Cholesterol; 724mg Sodium

From: Faylen Date: 100396 (19:54) The Polka Dot Cottage, a BBS with a
taste of home. 19738223627.

Posted to MCRecipe Digest V1 #713 by Lisa Clarke lisa@gaf.com on Aug 1,
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