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Recipe Poppy's Bishop Bread

Poppy's Bishop Bread

Recipes Index | Breads, Muffins and Scones

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.