Cake
1 c flour
1/2 t baking powder
1 t salt
3/4 c sugar
1/4 c shortening
1 egg
1/2 c milk
2 c blueberries, floured
Topping
1/2 c sugar
1/3 c flour
1 tsp cinnamon, more if desired
1/4 c butter, softened
Sift together flour, baking powder, and salt in a bowl and set aside. Mix sugar and shortening. Add egg and mix. Beginning and ending with flour mixture, add flour mixture and milk to the sugar mixture. Fold in blueberries and pour batter into a 9″ pan.
Blend all topping ingredients together, using cold butter to prevent it from becoming pasty. Sprinkle on top of batter and bake at 350 for 45 minutes.
Notes: Tom and I spent some great weekends in Cape May, New Jersey. This is a recipe from a fund-raising cookbook I bought there about fourteen years ago. We have this a lot in the summer and it has become a tradition to make it for Shannon’s birthday breakfast. This year, I took it to her in the hospital the day Benjamin was born, so maybe we should change the name to Benjamin’s Blueberry Birthday Cake.