Great-Grandma Ratcliffe's Southern Pineapple Upside-Down Cake

1/2 cup butter

1 cup brown sugar

1 can pineapple slices

1 cup cake flour, sifted

1 tsp baking powder

1/8 tsp salt

3 eggs

1 cup granulated sugar

1 tbsp vanilla

1 tsp rum or butter flavor (optional)

1/4 cup pineapple juice (reserved from can)

Marashino cherries

Pecan halves (optional)

Melt butter in a large (~11 inch) iron or heavy skillet; add brown sugar and stir, arrange pineapple slices, cherries, and pecans to cover bottom of pan. Sift dry ingredients together. Beat eggs with sugar, vanilla, juice, and rum flavor and add to dry mix. Pour over pineapple in skillet.

Bake 350F ~ 30 min

Turn upside-down on cake plate.