Violet’s Coffee Cake is a simple old fashioned cake made with brown sugar and nut meats. The handwritten recipe gives only the ingredients, oven temperature and baking time, leaving the mixing and assembly method to a cook who apparently already knew exactly what to do.
1/2 c shortening
1 c sugar
2 eggs
1 1/2 c flour
1 tsp baking powder
pinch salt
1 c brown sugar
1 egg white
1 c nut meats
350° – 40 min.