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	Easy Summer Cake by Magdalena Bassett
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1 stick (4 oz) butter*
1 cup sugar
1 cup flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
2 eggs
1 teaspoon lemon extract
3 peaches
1/2 cup raspberries or blackberries
1 tablespoon of sugar for the top

Whip butter with sugar until smooth, add flour, baking powder, eggs and lemon flavoring and whip on high for 1 minute. Transfer batter to the prepared pie dish, spread around and smooth the top with spatula. Place the fruit on top without pushing it in. Sprinkle the sugar on top. Bake 60 minutes or until the center is cooked when checked with a wooden skewer. (See photo at top)
 
Serve warm with ice cream or whipped cream. Or both.
 
NOTE: Instead of buying butter at the store, try your hand at making it at home. It's easy to make your own butter from raw milk. Brown's Dairy in Dungeness on Town Road offers raw, unpasteurized milk. Buy one gallon of milk, transfer to a container with a wide opening at the top, let stand at room temperature for 6 hours. The cream contained in the milk will rise to the top during that time. Skim the cream off the milk into a bowl of a mixer, making sure to get all the cream, but no milk. Whip on high until the cream becomes whipped cream, and then until it separates into clumps of butter and liquid whey. Run your hands under cold water to chill them and gather all butter into a ball. Run under very cold water and work it to squeeze the whey out. Pat dry with a paper towel, keep refrigerated.

Local sources for ingredients in these recipes:

  - Eggs - Kol Simcha Farm, Happy Valley, Sequim 
 - Raspberries - Graysmarsh Fruit Farm
 - Peaches - Washington-grown, Sunny Farms
 - Raw milk to make your own butter - Dungeness Valley Creamery, Sequim

Magdalena Bassett has been cooking and baking for over 40 years. She lives in Sequim, WA with her husband, DJ Bassett. Her cookbook, "Cooking and Baking with Lavender" is available in local stores and online. She is presently working on her next cookbook and workshop series, "Good Food School". Visit www.magdalenacooks.com for more information

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