Fall Leaves and Walnuts

Does it feel like fall yet? 

Are the leaves blowing in the wind?
Is there a chill in the air?

On the Old Farm there was a front woods

and a back woods. 
There were beech trees and ash trees and oaks and maples.
There was a chestnut tree. And english walnuts.

The Old Farmer's children as children all over the world
would collect the prettiest fall leaves they could find.
Beech leaves were yellow. 

Maples were red and golden. 

We would bring our samples home and the Old Farmer's Wife
would iron them between sheets of wax paper to preserve them. 

Then off to school for show and tell. 

And oh the bounty of walnuts. 

We would collect a basket full and spend

an evening in front of tv cracking shells and separating

the nuts into a bowl. 

These would make wonderful coffee cakes in the coming months.

 A RECIPE
This recipe is an easy quick coffee cake we learned in 4-H.
1 1/2 cups sifted flour
2 tsp baking powder
1 cup sugar
1/2 tsp salt
1/4 cup shortning
1 egg, beaten
1/2 cup milk
Grease bottom of 8" x 8" x 2" baking pan.
Sift and measure flour. sift together flour, baking powder, sugar, and salt.
And shortening and cut in with pastry blender or fork.
Add beaten egg and milk. Spread in greased pan.
1/2 cup brown sugar
2 tbsp flour
2 tsp cinnamon
4 tbsp butter
1/2 cup chopped nuts
Mix topping ingredients and sprinkle over cake mixture.
You want it on chunky so it sinks and and forms pockets of deliciousness.
If spread evenly and thin it will not work.
Bake at 350' for 30-35 minutes, serve hot!