Step 1
Preheat oven to 350F and cream the sugar and butter
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Feel free to substitute canola/vegetable oil! That's what I do.
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Step 2
Add the flour, baking powder, salt, and eggs
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Sift the flour. Salt optional. Beat well
Step 3
Spoon the batter into a spring form and add the plums
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Halve and pit the plums. 8-10inch spring form. Place the plum halves, skin side up on top of the batter
Step 4
Top with sugar, lemon juice, and cinnamon
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Sprinkle lightly with sugar and lemon juice, depending on the sweetness of the fruit. Sprinkle with about 1 tsp of cinnamon, depending on how much you like cinnamon.
Step 5
Bake one hour at 350F
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Bake one hour. Remove and cool; refrigerate or freeze if desired. Or cool to lukewarm and serve plain or with whipped cream. To serve a torte that was frozen, defrost and reheat it briefly at 300F. VARIATION: To make an apple-cranberry torte, follow directions for plum torte but peel, seed, quarter and slize two or three large baking apples. Arrange 1/2 cup of raw cranberries over the batter and top with the apple slices. Sprinkle generously with cinnamon; suqqeze 1/2 to 1 tbsp of lemon juice over the apples. Sprinkle with sugar.
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