Coffee Cake Recipe From Home Economics Circa 1971

Home Economics Cooking Class was a class most girls took in Junior High School. As 7th Graders we cooking for the first year. Learning the very basics of foods. We made a simple Square Coffee Cake from scratch that was so easy & yummy.  I saved the recipe for the Coffee Cake and then lost it several years ago. Today I was going threw old papers , pitching, purging. I found it tattered, stained and totally worn out but legible! I scanned and saved as a PDF right then and there.  

Recipe is the same but I've added a few hints

If your using

: A dark pan lower the temp from 375 to 350 and up time 5 minutes { to 35 minutes} 

: Convection oven change the time baked from 30 to 20 minutes. 

This recipe is for a 8 by 8 pan

Bake time is 375 for 30 minutes{ Do toothpick test~ Insert if clean when pulled out it's done} 

1 Stick margarine { but use butter!} 

1 cup Packed Brown Sugar

1 & 1/2 cups flour 

1 & 1/2 tsp Baking powder 

1 tsp salt

1 tsp  ground cinnamon

1 egg

1/2 cup milk 

In Large bowl { or mixer bowl} Soften 1 stick Butter. Drop the one cup brown sugar in the bowl. No need to mix . Leave this for a moment . 

In a sifter 

add the 

1 1/2 cups flour 

1 & 1/2 tsp Baking powder 

1 tsp salt

1 tsp cinnamon

Sift this over the top of the butter /brown sugar and Mix ~ BUT your not wanting to blend into anything but a flaky mix. I turned my mix master on and off on low just to mix well the mixture and keep it still crumbly. Now before the next step scoop out 1/2 cup of this mixture and set aside ~ it remaining mix add a well beaten egg & 1/2 cup milk . Mix well ~ till creamy~ Pour into a well greased pan , smooth out and then take that 1/2 cup flaky mixture & sprinkle evenly over the top and lightly press down.

Bake 375 for 30 minutes