Recipe - Grandmas Upside Down Cake

1 cn (1 lb. 4 oz.) cut or sliced up
pineapple
One fourth cup Butter
2/3 cup Brown sugar; firmly packed
Maraschino cherries
1 cup Flour
Three fourths cup Sugar
1 One half teaspoon Baking powder
One half teaspoon Salt
One half cup Milk
One fourth cup Shortening
1 Egg
1 teaspoon Lemon juice
1 teaspoon Vanilla
One fourth teaspoon Grated lemon peel

Drain pineapple reserving 2 tablespoons syrup. Melt butter in a 10 inch
cast iron skillet. Stir in brown sugar until blended. Remove from heat.
Arrange pineapple slices in sugar mixture. Place a maraschino cherry in
center of each slice. Combine flour, sugar, baking powder and salt. Add
milk and shortening; beat 2 minutes. Add egg, reserved syrup, lemon juice,
vanilla and lemon peel. Beat 2 minutes. Pour ovr pineapple in skillet,
spreading evenly. Bake in a 350 oven for 40 minutes. Cool on a wire rack 5
minutes. Invert on serving plate. Serve warm. Makes 8 servings.

Recipe by: Unknown Cookbook

Posted to MCRecipe Digest V1 #997 by L979 L979@aol.com on Jan 8, 1998