Honey Cake Recipe

Ingredients:

4 oz Butter
4 lg Eggs
14 oz Honey
14 oz Unbleached All-Purpose Flour
-; 3 Cups
1/2 ts Ground Ginger
1/2 ts Ground Nutmeg
1/2 ts Ground Cloves
1 ts Cinnamon
2 ts Baking Powder

Directions:

1. Cream the butter and separate the eggs.
   
   
2. Add the room temperature yolks, one at a time, to the butter and beat well.
   
   
3. Mix in the honey. Sift the flour, baking powder, and spices twice and add to the butter mixture. Whip the egg whites until stiff.
   
   
4. Fold a little of the egg whites into the batter, then add the rest of them, folding them gently into the batter. Pour the batter into a guttered and floured loaf pan.
   
   
5. Bake in a preheated 350 Degrees F. oven until firm on top and a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean, about 1 hour. Cool, in the pan, for 10 minutes, then remove and finish cooling on a wire rack.
   
   Serves 10