Ancient Recipes: Cinnamon Coffee Cake

This recipe was created over 900 years ago by the first ever recorded naturopath, Hildegard of Bingen, who believed in a simple eating regiment to good health.  

Ingredients:

• ½ cup butter
• 2 cups brown sugar
• 2 cups spelt flour
• 1 tbsp cinnamon
• 1 egg, well beaten
• 1 tsp baking soda
• 1 cup buttermilk

Directions:

Mix butter, brown sugar, flower, and cinnamon together with fork until crumbly.  Take out one cup of mixture for crumb topping.  Then mix together the egg, baking soda, and buttermilk.  Add this to the dry mixture and put in a greased 9 x 15 inch pan.  Sprinkle a little additional brown sugar over the dough before adding the reserved crumb topping.  Bake at 400 degreed for 20 minutes or until done.  

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