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Honey Cake

Categories -all-Meats Seafood Side Dishes Soups-Stews Desserts Breads-Cakes Toppings Drinks

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Time: 1/2 to 3/4 hour

Sufficient for 3 or 4 persons

Ingredients

1/2 breakfast-cupful of sugar
1 breakfast-cupful of rich sour cream
2 breakfast-cupfuls of flour
1/2 teaspoonful of carbonate of soda
honey to taste

Directions

Mix the sugar and cream together

Dredge in the flour, with as much honey as will flavour the mixture nicely

Stir it well, that all the ingredients may be thoroughly mixed;

Add the carbonate of soda

Beat the cake well for another 5 minutes

Put it into a buttered tin

Bake it from 1/2 to 3/4 hour, and let it be eaten warm

Source: The Book of Household Management by Isabella Beeton (1859)

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