Good ol Mable Haas had quite a few treats in her cookbook. I have seen lots of vintage recipes for pineapple upside down cake. It must have been “the thing” for quite some time. It doesn’t sound good to me, but I know lots of people like it. The way this recipe reads is probably the way Mable thought, meaning she went through the process in a less organized manner than most recipes are written. It makes this somehow more endearing and homey.

Pineapple Upside Down Cake (Mable Haas)

1/4 cup shortening

1 cupful brown sugar

1 can pineapple

Melt the shortening in a 10 or 12 in pan. Spread brown sugar evenly over bottom of pan. Cover the sugar with well drained pineapple. And then cover the pineapples with the cake batter as follows.

3 eggs

5 tablespoonsful of pineapple juice

1 cup gran. sugar

1 cup flour

Add sugar to the beaten egg yolks.

1 teaspoon B powder.

Then mix in pineapple juice and the flour sifted with the baking powder. Fold in the beaten egg whites. Pour this batter over pineapple, sugar and shortening. Bake in moderate hot oven for 30 to 40 minutes.