Recipe - Honey Cake With Rose Water For The Angels

3 cup Allpurpose flour
1 One half teaspoon Baking powder
One fourth teaspoon Ground cinnamon
One half teaspoon Baking soda
1 tablespoon Instant coffee
One half cup Boiling water
One fourth cup Vegetable oil
1 cup Honey
1 Orange, grated peel of
2 teaspoon Rose water
4 Eggs
1 cup Sugar
1 cup Chopped walnuts

Here is Jeff Smith's recipe for a birthday cake that may have been served
around the time of Jesus' birth.

Combine the flour, baking powder, cinnamon, and baking soda. Set aside.
Dissolve the instant coffee in the water in a mixing bowl. Blend in the
oil, honey, grated orange peel, and rose water and set aside. In a large
bowl, beat the eggs until frothy. Gradually add the sugar and beat for 1
minute. Add the honey mixture to the eggs and sugar. Add the flour mixture
to the egg mixture alternately with the dissolved coffee, starting and
ending with the dry ingredients. Stir in the nuts. Pour the batter into an
oiled and waxed paperlined 13x9x2 inch baking pan. Bake in a preheated 325
oven for about 50 minutes. Test for doneness.

Invert cake onto wire rack. Cool. Peel off the waxed paper and wrap in
aluminum foil to maintain freshness.

Posted to EATL Digest 17 Feb 97 by "Cole, Jim" JCOLE@ASFSA.ORG on Feb
18, 1997.