• 1 cup plus 2 tablespoons butter
• 2-1/4 cups sugar
• 4 eggs
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 3 cups all-purpose flour, divided
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 2 cups chopped fresh peaches

1. grease a tube pan with the 2 tablespoons of butter
2. sprinkle pan with 1/4 cup sugar
3. cream remaining butter;
4. gradually add remaining sugar, beating well
5. add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition
6. add vanilla and mix well
7. combine 2-3/4 cups flour, baking powder and salt gradually add to creamed mixture, beating until well-blended
8. dredge peaches with remaining 1/4 cup flour
9. fold peaches into batter
10. pour batter into prepared pan
11. bake at 325*F for 1 hour and 10 minutes
12. remove from pan and cool completely

serves 16 for a real delight, top with a sauce... suggestions:

• peach sauce (peaches, sugar, water in the blender, puree, cook till syrupy) caramel sauce (see the apple dumpling "receipt")

• praline sauce (pecans in the blender, powderize, add to hot caramel sauce, mix well)

• rum sauce (hot caramel sauce, add 2 tablespoons dark venezuelan rum to taste)

• lemon sauce (hard to make good from scratch , use Jello lemon cooked pudding mix with an extra egg yolk, serve hot off stove)