Honey Cake Recipe
Ingredients
| Honey | 1⁄2 Pint (2 Gills) | |
| Sugar | 3 Ounce | |
| Almonds | 1 Ounce | |
| Candied orange peel | 1 Ounce | |
| Potash | 1⁄4 Ounce | |
| Rum | 1 Tablespoon | |
| White flour | 1 1⁄4 Pound |
Directions
Boil honey with castor sugar in a saucepan.
When honey mixture has browned, add the almonds and orange peel—both chopped into longish pieces—and mix with the flour.
Flavour with rum.
When the dough has cooled a little, mix in a pinch of potash and then leave overnight.
The next day lightly grease and dust tin of desired size and shape with flour, put in dough and bake in a moderate oven until brown.
When honey mixture has browned, add the almonds and orange peel—both chopped into longish pieces—and mix with the flour.
Flavour with rum.
When the dough has cooled a little, mix in a pinch of potash and then leave overnight.
The next day lightly grease and dust tin of desired size and shape with flour, put in dough and bake in a moderate oven until brown.
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