Honey Cakes

Ingredients

• fib. of butter
• 2flb. of sifted flour
• 1 teaspoonful of salt
• 1 teaspoonful of bicarbonate of soda
• 1 pint of water
• fib. of Honey

Method

1. 1

   Melt the butter in a saucepan, stir in the flour until lightly browned.

2. 2

   Make a bay in the center, dissolve salt and bicarbonate in water, pour into the flour, and mix to a soft paste.

3. 3

   Knead, shape into rounds, dent the center, place on a buttered baking-sheet, and bake until colored.

4. 4

   Prepare a syrup with Honey and water, pour over the cakes, and return to the oven until soaked in.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The encyclopaedia of practical cookery (1892) by Theodore Francis Garrett, William A. Rawson, page 119. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Honey Cakes. — (1) Put fib. of butter in a saucepan, and place it over the fire until melted ; then stir in gradually 2flb. of sifted flour, and continue stirring over the fire until lightly browned. Turn the flour out of the saucepan on to a paste-board, and make a bay in the centre ; dissolve 1 teaspoonful each of salt and bicarbonate of soda in a small quantity of water, then pour it into the flour and mix well ; stir in sufficient water to make a soft flexible paste. Knead the paste well, then divide it into small equal-sized portions, shape them round, make a dent in the centre of each with the tip of the finger, lay them on a buttered baking-sheet, and bake till coloured. Put fib. of Honey in a saucepan with 1 pint of water, and stir it over the fire until reduced to a syrup. When the cakes are cooked, pour the syrup over, and put them again into the oven until it has well soaked in. Arrange the cakes tastefully on a hot dish, and serve. (2) Put fib. of Honey into a lined saucepan with 2oz. of butter, and place it over the fire until on the point of boiling and the butter has dissolved, then turn it into a basin ; when it has somewhat cooled, stir in by degrees fib. of flour, 2oz. of blanched and pounded almonds, the grated peel of half a lemon, and a teaspoon barely full of pounded cloves. Dissolve 1 teaspoonful of bicarbonate of soda

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