Love Cakes

Ingredients

• Boil 2 cupfuls of honey
• and 1 ounce of sugar
• Add 4 ounces of chopped almonds
• and 8 ounces of chopped candied peel
• ½ teaspoonful of bicarbonate of soda
• a nutmeg, grated
• a pinch of cloves
• a teaspoonful of cinnamon
• rind of a lemon, grated
• and a tablespoonful of rum or sherry
• after adding enough flour to stiffen

Method

1. 1

   Boil honey and sugar, add almonds, simmer, then add candied peel, bicarbonate of soda, nutmeg, cloves, cinnamon, lemon rind, and rum.

2. 2

   Cut into pieces, roll thin, bake in a slow oven, ice with sugar, and eat cold.

As published

This recipe was extracted from With a saucepan over the sea (1902) by Adelaide Keen, page 68. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

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