Recipe Poppy's Bishop Bread

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This is a coffee cake recipe handed down to me by my grandmother. She made it every year when the Episcopal Bishop visited their small church in East Helena, Montana

Ingredients

• 2 1/2 cups flour

• 3/4 cup white sugar

• 1 cup brown sugar

• 3/4 cup canola oil

• pinch of salt

• 1 tsp. cinnamon

• 1/2 tsp. ground cloves

• 1 egg, beaten

• 1 cup buttermilk

• 1 tsp. baking soda

• Enough hot water to dissolve baking soda

Directions

1. Bake at 350 degree oven for 35 minutes.

2. Combine the first 7 ingredients.

3. Save out one cup of this mixture to use as topping.

4. Add 1 beaten egg, buttermilk and soda dissolved in water to the above mixture.

5. Pour mixture into a greased 9 x 13 inch pan.

6. Sprinkle the reserved mixture on top.