My mom's maiden name was Mueller. I don't know when the umlaut got dropped or when the pronunciation became "miller", but the German-ness of her family wasn't lost until my generation (and there are vestiges that live on...).
I grew up on meat and potatoes and it was my mom who taught me to cook; first by watching her in the kitchen and then with tips, guidance and encouragement from the couch in the living room. While I learned to cook dinner, I really never ventured into the baking realm and pies and other goodies that she seemed to produce with hardly a second thought have only of late even vaguely asserted their presence in my repertoire.
My sister Maris has been the keeper of many of Mom's recipes and among them was her coffee cake recipe. I copied it down a while ago and have tried several times to reproduce the coffee cake that Mom would make in the morning for breakfast. It has been unmitigated failure (OK perhaps there has been some mitigation to the failure, but I have sure as heck not reproduced the lovely thing in my memory, or even what I have seen in the case at Starbucks).
I am pretty sure that part of the problem lies in a transcription error somewhere along the line with respect to the recipe and I think that error has to do with the amount of flour (careful reading and comparison to Joy of Cooking and other sources leads me to this conclusion), but I don't know what the correct answer should be (maybe I should concede and just use Joy's version of the recipe (more on this when I get back to pie crust)).
BUT tomorrow morning another attempt will be made with the help of Francie. She says it is not hard and I believe her, I just don't know the magic...
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