Honing Koek (Honey Cake)

Ingredients

• 6 lb Flour
• 2 lb Sugar
• 1.5 quart bottles Honey
• 1 dessertspoonful Cloves
• 2 dessertspoonfuls Cinnamon, pounded
• Potash
• 1 wineglass Brandy
• 2 teaspoonfuls Soda
• Butter
• Preserved citron, cut into strips

Instructions

1. Boil the sugar and honey together.
2. Add one dessertspoonful of cloves and two dessertspoonfuls of pounded cinnamon; remove from the fire.
3. Add the weight of an egg in potash and one wineglass of brandy.
4. Mix the flour with two teaspoonfuls of soda.
5. Mix the hot syrup and flour well together, working the dough well with the hands.
6. Roll out the dough thinly.
7. Put into a buttered pan and bake in a slow oven for one hour.
8. Cut into squares.