American coffee cake

4 1/2 c  flour
      4 ts baking powder
      1 ts Salt
      4 tb Sugar
      2 tb butter; or lard - rounded
      2 ea Eggs
  1 1/3 c  Milk
           Topping---------------------
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      1 ts Cinnamon
      1 tb butter
    1/2 c  flour
    1/2 c  Sugar
 
  Sift flour, add baking powder, salt, sugar. Sift three times. Chop
  butter in with spoon. Beat up whites until stiff. Add egg yolks, beat.
  Add milk. Beat all together, turn into 2 square pans and spread with
  the topping mixture.
  
  Source: Casstown Lostcreek Grange, Miami County, OH