Sour Cream Coffee Cake

An ode to family recipes and very old cookbooks.

There is something very special about a very old cookbook.

If it’s an original edition, the pages are probably wrinkled and stained with butter or coffee or tomato sauce (or all three). If you’re really lucky—and if you acquired it secondhand—there will be little handwritten notes tucked throughout the pages. My favorite ones are those I will likely nev…