Apple Upside-Down Cake

3 tablespoons butter
1/2 cup brown sugar
5 or 6 thick slices peeled apple
5 or 6 maraschino cherries

 Place butter in round cake pan and melt. Sprinkle on the sugar. Now place in slices of apple with a cherry in the middle of each one. Cook slowly for one minute, covered.

2 1/2 tablespoons butter
1/2 cup fine sugar
1 egg
1/4 teaspoon flavouring
1 cup flour
1 1/4 teaspoon baking powder
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/4 cup milk

Cream butter very well. Add sugar gradually and cream in well. Add the well-beaten egg and beat very thoroughly. Add flavoring. Mix and sift the dry ingredients and pour over the fruit arranged in the pan. Bake at 350 degree F. for about 35 minutes. Loosen cake from sides of pan. Invert on large serving plate and server either with or without whipped cream.