Hot Peach Cake

Description
Purchased from the Weir Estate in Canton, Texas in 1990. Dated 1957. I have made this cake literally dozens of times and it is magnificent.

Ingredients
Topping:
 * 1/2 cup butter
 * 1 cup granulated sugar
 * 3 eggs, beaten
 * 1-1/2 cups cake flour
 * 1-1/2 teaspoons baking powder
 * 1/8 teaspoon salt
 * 1 teaspoon vanilla
 * 6 fresh peaches, peeled, pitted and quartered
 * 2 teaspoons cinnamon
 * 1/4-cup butter, creamed
 * 1/2 cup granulated sugar
 * 1/2 cup cake flour

Directions

 * 1) Cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy.
 * 2) Add beaten eggs and beat until light.
 * 3) Sift the dry ingredients together.
 * 4) Combine mixtures and add vanilla.
 * 5) Pour into a greased and floured pan.
 * 6) Stick the peaches half-way into the dough in rows.
 * 7) Sprinkle liberally with cinnamon.
 * 8) Make crumbles of the butter creamed with the sugar and cut in the flour with a pastry fork.
 * 9) Cover the top with this mixture and bake at 350 for 45 minutes.

Contributed by
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