Honey Cake

Yield: Ingredients

• 4 T Spry or Crisco
• 1 c brown sugar
• 4 eggs, separated
• 1 lb honey
• 2 t baking powder
• ½ t baking soda
• ½ t salt
• 1 ½ t allspice
• about 3 oz blanched almonds
• A handful or more of raisins
• 2 ½ to 2 ¾ cups flour

Instructions

1. Blend Crisco and sugar well.  Add well-beaten egg yolks , then blend in the honey.
2. Sift dry ingredients together and add to wet mix slowly. "Nuts and raisins to be slightly floured before adding to mixture so they won't go to bottom of pan."  Save some nuts to decorate top of cake.
3. Fold in beaten egg whites.
4. Pour into 6 ½ x 13 pan and bake at 350 degrees for about 50 minutes.

Notes:  Beloved childhood recipe found when cleaning out my parents' house.

Source:  My great-grandmother Libby Dubrinsky