Cherry Kuchen
Cuisine: German
Keyword: Kuchen
Author: Ann Bickman
2½ cups all purpose flour 1 cup sugar 3 tsp baking powder 1 cup butter 3 eggs ½ cup milk 1 tsp vanilla 21oz can cherry pie filling
Mix flour, sugar, baking powder.
Cut in butter with pastry blender.
Set aside 1 cup of crumbs.
Beat eggs, add milk and vanilla.
Add to flour crumb mixture.
Pour into a greased 9″x13″ pan.
Spoon pie filling on top.
Sprinkle with reserved crumbs.
Bake at 350° for 40 minutes.
Serve warm or cool.
This recipe came from my grandmother cousin Armella. I did leave out Armella’s secret ingredient- which would be tobacco smoke. Both Armella and her husband were chain smokers and I still remember the cloud of smoke that hung in the air. Ahh the 70s when a little second hand smoke was OK.
Armella's Kuchen recipe
Recipe from my grandmothers cousin Armella Hildebrand
Author: Armella Schweitzer Hildebrand
Main Kuchen dough 1 cup milk scaled 1/4 cup shortening (half crisco, half butter) 1 tsp salt 1/2 cup sugar 2 eggs 1 yeast cake 3 1/2 cups flour 1 cup warm water Topping 1/2 Cup butter 1/2 cup brown sugar 1 cup flour
scald milk, add shortening, sugar and salt, when cooled add eggs
Dissolve yeast in warm water, add 2 tablespoon sugar
Let rise a little bit, when milk mixture cooled combine yeast mixture and milk mixture
Add eggs and flour, mix
Let flour rise until doubled in bulk
Punch dough down and knead on floured board, set in 2 or 3 greased pans- let rise again.
Mix topping together and sprinkle on the risen mixture
Bake at 350º for 25 minutes
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