Honey Cake
INGREDIENTS for cake sufficient for 4 or 5 persons. 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. AVERAGE COST, 8d.
Mix the sugar and cream together; HONORÉ CAKE. 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, and 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.
TIME. hour to hour.
SEASONABLE at any time.
Honoré Cake. - INGREDIENTS. - The lower half of a round sponge-cake, a glass of sherry, some meringue paste, sugar, pint of cream, vanilla flavouring. AVERAGE COST, 1s. 6d.
Soak the cake in the sherry, colour half the meringue paste pink, and put it in little heaps of alternate colours round the cake to make a wall. Bake in a quick oven till the paste is done. When the cake is cold, whip the cream to a froth with a little sugar and flavouring, and fill up the centre of it. To enrich this cake a layer of apricot jam may be put under the cream.
SEASONABLE at any time.