Honey Cake (Gateau au Miet) a la Hammond

Ingredients

• Three-quarters cup butter
• one cup sugar
• three-quarters cup honey
• two cups flour
• one teaspoon Royal baking powder
• three eggs
• juice of half lemon
• one tablespoon brandy
• small teaspoon nutmeg

Method

1. 1

   Stir butter and sugar to a cream; add the yolks — one after the other, stir about ten minutes, add the honey, then flour, baking powder, lemon juice, brandy, and nutmeg; mix well until smooth; last add the whites of the eggs — well beaten.

2. 2

   Bake in a well-buttered and papered cake tin (can also be made in small individual cake tins).

3. 3

   Turn out; frost with a royal honey frosting.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The Swedish, French, American cook book (1918) by Hammond, Maria Mathilda (Ericsson) Mrs., page 579. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

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