Gum Lu (Golden Cakes)

Origin: Chicago, Illinois

Source: Sara Bosse and Onoto Watanna (Winnifred Eaton), 1914

Ingredients

Instructions

  1. Take one and one half cupfuls of rice flour and a pinch of salt, and work into this three teaspoonfuls of clarified goose fat.
  2. Chop very fine about a quarter of a cup of minced nuts.
  3. Beat the yolks of two eggs and mix all together.
  4. Pour in one cup of raw, dark honey.
  5. If the mixture is too moist, add more flour.
  6. Stir thoroughly for fifteen or twenty minutes.
  7. Pour into small cake pans, well oiled, and bake slowly for two hours.

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