Old Fashioned Pineapple Upside Down Cake

1 stick butter (yes, butter)
2 cups brown sugar
Heat butter in iron skillet, then add brown sugar and simmer until melted.
Arrange canned or fresh pineapple rings on top of sugar.
Put marischino cherries in middle of pineapple rings.
3 egg yolks
1 cup white sugar
1 tsp vanilla
1/4 cup juice from pineapple (if not enough, add water)
Beat until sugar dissolved
one and 1/4 cup flour
one tsp baking powder
1/4 tsp salt
Sift and stir into egg mixture.
Beat the 3 remaining egg whites until peaks form.
Stir into first mixture and pour over fruit.
Bake at 350 degrees for 35 to 45 minutes.
When tested done in the middle, take carefully out of oven
Using oven mittens or thick pot holders.
Cover with large serving dish
and flip over.

Yum.