Old Fashioned Breakfast Crumb Cakes

Total Time: 35 mins Preparation Time: 15 mins Cook Time: 20 mins

Ingredients

• 3 cups flour
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1 3/4 cups granulated sugar
• 1/2 teaspoon cream of tartar
• 3/4 cup butter or 3/4 cup shortening
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 2 eggs
• 2 teaspoons vanilla
• 1 1/4 cups thick sour milk
• cinnamon

Recipe

• 1 stir sugar, salt, cream of tartar and flour together; blend in shortening and mix like pie dough to make crumbs.
• 2 mix well.
• 3 keep aside 2 handsful of crumbs.
• 4 add eggs& 1 cup milk alternately to first mixture.
• 5 add soda to 1/4 cup milk, then add vanilla.
• 6 beat well and place in greased and floured pie tins.
• 7 fill 1/2 full and top with crumbs.
• 8 sprinkle with cinnamon.
• 9 use 3 7" pie tins.
• 10 bake in 375° oven for about 20 minutes.
• 11 for variation, the juice of 1 lemon and grated rind may be added to mixture, then omit cinnamon.