Grandma's honey cake

16 Servings

Ingredients

Quantity Ingredient
6 Eggs
1 pounds Honey
1 cup Coffee, Strong
6 cups Flour, Sifted (Light)
4 teaspoons Baking Powder
2 teaspoons Baking Soda
¾ cup Oil
⅓ cup Whiskey
1 pinch Salt, (In The Eggs)
1 teaspoon Nutmeg, (Or To Taste)
1 teaspoon Allspice, (Or To Taste)
½ teaspoon Cloves (Ground), (Or To Taste)
Cinnamon, To Taste
Walnuts, (about 1/2 cup)

Directions

Sift the dry ingredients together. Beat eggs with salt. Add sugar & oil together. Beat well. Add honey. Mix well. Add coffee & whiskey. alternately with dry ingredients. Until all are incorporated. Add walnuts if desired, leaving a few to decorate the top of the cake. Pour into a greased, (brown paper bag works fine) paper lined Baking Pan (Lasagna sized).

Bake at 350 degrees for 1 hour or more , until cake tests done when a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean.

NOTES : I start with the prescribed amounts of spices and then add more according to smell.

Recipe by: Grandma Fannie Hopin Posted to JEWISH-FOOD digest V97 #149 by Goldtag1@... on May 2, 1997

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