Honey Cake
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Ingredients
- 6ozs Honey
- 5½ ozs unsalted butter
- 2½ ozs dark muscovado sugar
- 2 eggs
- 7ozs self raising flour
Accompaniment
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Description
This is a delicious cake my grandmother made for Sunday tea
Method
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1. Preheat oven to 160c,300f,gas mk 2.
2. Butter and line a 2lb loaf tin.
3. Cut butter into bits and put into a saucepan with the honey and sugar. Melt over a low heat intil liquid. Boil for 1 minute. Leave to cool for at least 15 to 20 minutes.
4. Beat the eggs into honey mixture.
5. Sift flour into a large bowl and then add the liquid. Beat until it is a smooth batter.
6. Pour mixture into the loaf tin and cook for approx 50 minute to 1 hour. Test with a skewer. Turn the cake onto a wire rack and glaze with approx 1 tablespoon of warmed honey.
This is a real treat
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