Rub together a pound of sifted flour and three-quarters of a pound
of fresh butter. Mix in, a tea-cup of fine brown sugar, two large
table-spoonfuls of strong ginger, and (If you like them) two
table-spoonfuls of carraway seeds. Having beaten five eggs, add
them to the mixture alternately with a pint of strained honey;
stirring in towards the last a small tea-spoonful of pearl-ash,
that has been melted in a very little water.
Having beaten or stirred the mixture long enough to make it
perfectly light, transfer it to a square iron or block-tin pan,
(which must be well buttered,) put it into a moderate oven, and
bake it an hour or more, in proportion to its thickness.
When cool, cut it into squares. It is best if eaten fresh, but it
will keep very well a week.