This Cinnamon Tea Cake comes from Elinor Lipman. A best-selling novelist who serves up social comedies with affection and wit, Elinor has a talent for observing and carving up our culture \u2014 which of course includes food. Most notably, she can remember every meal she ever ate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
While critics have praised her pitch-perfect ear for dialogue, I would also like to extol her taste buds. Everything she cooks and bakes and every restaurant dish she recommends is a winner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
So I am overjoyed she has let me feature her mother\u2019s recipe for Cinnamon Tea Cake. Like a Drake\u2019s crumb cake, it’s delightfully light and luscious with cinnamon. And it performs the brilliant trick of self-streuseling. That is, the crumbly topping (streusel) comes from the same dry ingredients you mix for the batter. You just set some aside and sprinkle it on at the end.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Cake at Lake Devine<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Elinor grew up in Lowell, Massachusetts, and her family vacationed at Lake Dunmore in Vermont in the \u201860s. Her mother, Julia, selected this lake from a Chamber of Commerce brochure, and sent inquiries to several hotels and lodges. The family ended up at a cottage, not the grand inn on the lake, due to a letter her mother received from the inn\u2019s proprietors. This letter, displaying what Elinor calls a fascinating \u201cmarriage of good manners and anti-Semitism,\u201d became the inspiration for her novel, The Inn at Lake Devine,<\/em> hailed as \u201ca tale of delicious revenge\u201d by USA Today.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Elinor, her sister, and her father would swim while her mother and her friends sat at the shore within sight of the restricted Inn, shmoozing and exchanging recipes. This gem came from one of these friends, Sib Rosen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This Cinnamon Tea Cake comes from Elinor Lipman. A best-selling novelist who serves up social comedies with affection and wit, Elinor has a talent for observing and carving up our culture \u2014 which of course includes food. Most notably, she can remember every meal she ever ate. While critics have praised her pitch-perfect ear for dialogue, I would also like to extol her taste buds. Everything she cooks and bakes and every restaurant dish she recommends is a winner. So I am overjoyed she has let me feature her mother\u2019s recipe for Cinnamon Tea Cake. Like a Drake\u2019s crumb cake, it’s delightfully light and luscious with cinnamon. And it performs the brilliant trick of self-streuseling. That is, the crumbly topping (streusel) comes from the same dry ingredients you mix for the batter. You just set some aside and sprinkle it on at the end. The Cake at Lake Devine Elinor grew up in Lowell, Massachusetts, and her family vacationed at Lake Dunmore in Vermont in the \u201860s. Her mother, Julia, selected this lake from a Chamber of Commerce brochure, and sent inquiries to several hotels and lodges. The family ended up at a cottage, not the grand inn on the lake, due to a letter her mother received from the inn\u2019s proprietors. This letter, displaying what Elinor calls a fascinating \u201cmarriage of good manners and anti-Semitism,\u201d became the inspiration for her novel, The Inn at Lake Devine, hailed as \u201ca tale of delicious revenge\u201d by USA Today. Elinor, her sister, and her father would swim while her mother and her friends sat at the shore within sight of the restricted Inn, shmoozing and exchanging recipes. This gem came from one of these friends, Sib Rosen. Cinnamon Tea Cake<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":551,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,190,5,3],"tags":[63,299,65,66,61,248,64,62],"class_list":["post-539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breakfast","category-cakes","category-desserts","category-recipes","tag-cinnamon-tea-cake","tag-cinnamon-teacake","tag-crumb-cake","tag-drakes-cake","tag-elinor-lipman","tag-self-streuseling","tag-streusel-coffee-cake","tag-the-inn-at-lake-devine"],"yoast_head":"\nCinnamon Tea Cake<\/span><\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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