Instructions: * (She only used the old wet cake type ... substitute a couple pkgs of dry yeast)

Makes three 9 x 13 pans

Dissolve yeast in water and allow to expand. Cream butter and sugar. Add eggs and all other ingredients, including yeast. Let rise until double in bulk.

Put in greased and floured pans. Pat the dough down and spread with melted butter.

Sprinkle sugar mixture on the top. Take a teaspoon, using the back and punch down on the dough, making holes so the sugar mixture falls into them. Dont let rise too long. Bake at 350 for 30 minutes or until done.

Serve sliced and spread with LARGE gobs of butter. If you dont like raisins, pick them out and give them to Cousin Janice. She likes them - at least she used to.

The instructions I received for this recipe were sketchy - "mix and bake" were about it! So I have added directions. Grandma ALWAYS had this coffeecake when we came over. All of us who were not in church choir would gather there on Wednesday nights to wait for the singers to finish practice. When they came, wed have "lunch," which would include this coffeecake and coffee as well as cake or cookies brought along by the aunts.

NOTES : This is my German grandmothers coffeecake recipe. It sounds like it fits the request that was made. Its wonderful with slabs of REAL butter on it! but it does stale quickly, so eat it up! You can halve or third the ingredients and make less.

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