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Pineapple Upside Down Cake 

2 1/2 cups sifted Flour
4       Tsp Baking Powder
1/2     Tsp Salt
1 cup softened Butter
1 1/2 cups grandulated Sugar
2 Eggs
2 Tsp Vanilla
1 cup Milk
1 1/2 cup Brown Sugar
1 (20 Oz) can sliced Pineapple
Marchino Cherries

Preheat oven to 350. Combine flour, baking powder and salt in medium bowl: set aside. Beat together 1/2 cup butter and granulated sugar in large bowl until light and fluffy. Blend in eff. Add flour mixture alternately with milk, beating well after each addition.  Blend in vanilla.

Melt remaining butter in iron 9-inch skillet. Stir in bown sugar. Tilt skillet to make sure the bottom is covered. Place pineapple slices on top of brown sugar and put a marchino cherry in the center of each slice.  Add cake mixture.  Bake for at least 50 minor until wooden spoon comes out clean. Cool cake for 10 minutes. Loosen edges and turn onto cake dish.

This recipe is the closest I have come to in the way that my mother and aunt used to make it.



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This cake was made famous to our family by Aunt Nell and my Mother Kate Mugnai. Whenever we would come to either home, it was always made for us.