Teisen Mel (Traditional Welsh Honeycake)

Recipe Cuisine: Breads
Recipe Category: Breads
Recipe Serves: 1

Recipes Ingredients:

1/2 lb Plain white household flour
1/4 lb Butter
1/2 ts Baking powder
1/4 lb Caster sugar
1 1/2 ts Ground cinnamon
2 lg Eggs
1/4 lb Runny honey
1 tb Milk (or double this amount)
1 tb Runny honey

Recipe Instructions:

Sieve the flour, raising agent and spice into a bowl. Lightly grease a tin Pie plate measuring about 8-1/2-inches across the top. Cream the Butter with 3 oz Sugar until creamy and light. Add the Egg yolks then the 1/4 lb honey, gradually. Gently mix in the flour, then the milk. Spread the mixture in the prepared tin, mounding it slightly in the centre, and then bake at 400 F (200 C) gas mark 6 for about half an hour. Let the Cake rest in its tin for 2 minutes before turning it out on to a wire rack. Let it cool for 10 minutes then slide it on to a Baking tray and brush the top with 1 tablespoon warmed honey - or redcurrant jelly if you prefer. Whisk the Egg whites and the remaining 1 oz Sugar to make a glossy meringue mixture. Swirl this over the top of the Cake and bake at 325 F (160 C) gas mark 3 for about 20 minutes. Serve the Cake when it is cold. Makes 1 cake. Source: Philippa Davenport in "Country Living" (British), March 1989. Typed for you by Karen Mintzias