Honey Cakes (a German recipe)

Ingredients

• two ounces of butter
• half a pound of honey
• the finely-minced rind of half a lemon
• two ounces of sweet almonds
• the eighth of a nutmeg, grated
• half a pound of flour
• half an ounce of carbonate of soda
• dissolved in a small quantity of warm water

Method

1. 1

   Melt butter, stir in honey, and boil while stirring.

2. 2

   Remove from heat, cool slightly, and mix in lemon rind, almonds, nutmeg, and flour.

3. 3

   Add carbonate of soda dissolved in warm water.

4. 4

   Leave mixture cool for 12-14 hours.

5. 5

   Roll out, cut into squares, place candied peel and blanched almond on each, and bake for 25 minutes.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Cassell's dictionary of cookery (1892) by Cassell & Company, page 724. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Honey Cakes (a Gei-man recipe).— Put two ounces of butter into a saucepan, and when melted, stir in half a pound of honey. Let it boil, stirring briskly aU the time. Take it from the fire, and, when slightly cool, mix with it the finely-minced rind of half a lemon, two ounces of sweet almonds, blanclied and coarsely pounded, the eighth of a nutmeg, grated, and half a pound of flour, and, last of all, half an ounce of car- bonate of soda dissolved in a small quantity of warm water

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