Honey Cakes

Name: Honey Cakes
Yield: 20 servings
Ingredients: three and one-half pounds of flour; one and one-half pounds of honey; one-half pound of butter; one-half pound of sugar; half a nutmeg; one tablespoonful of ginger; one teaspoonful of soda

From The household (of the Detroit free press), 1886

Serves 20

They will keep a long time.

Presented as published in 1886. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.

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As published

This recipe was extracted from The household (of the Detroit free press) (1886) by Goff, May Perrin,, page 359. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

HONEY CAKES. Three and one-half pounds of flour, one and one-half pounds of honey, one-half pound of butter, one-half pound of sugar, half a nutmeg, one tablespoonful of ginger, one teaspoonful of soda

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