I had promised to post the Cowboy Cake recipe in appreciation for all the suggestions and the cassoulet recipe. The trick was finding it. It was in a cookbook of my favorite recipes of my Mom's, and when we remodeled the basement, everything got moved around. Now that I've found it, here it is.

COWBOY CAKE

3/4 cup white sugar
1/3 cup dark brown sugar
1/2 cup light brown sugar
3 cups flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 cup (2 sticks) butter or margerine
1 egg, large (beaten)
1 1/2 cups buttermilk
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 teaspoon cinammon

Mix together sugars, flour, baking powder and baking soda. Cut in butter as with pie crust. Save out 1 cup of this mixture. To remaining mixture add egg, buttermilk and vanilla, mixing until ingredients are moist. Pour mixture into greased 9 x 13 pan.

Mix cinnamon with reserved flour mixture. Sprinkle over batter. Bake at 350 degrees for about 45 minutes, or until done.

As I may have mentioned, I swapped a perfectly good, unopened cassette of Handful Of Songs for this recipe. A woman brought a plate of cake to be sold during intermission at the Sounding Board in Hartford, CT. where I was doing a concert. I bought half the plate, I think.

Don't ask me why it's called Cowboy Cake, because I don't know. I find it hard to believe that the average cowpoke carried all this stuff in his saddle bag..

Jerry