Sometimes, what’s old is new again. That certainly applies to classic Jewish recipes, many jotted down by home cooks—moms, aunts, grandmoms, great-grandmothers—who didn’t add specific measurements or even the temperatures at which to bake their products.

Rye Flour Honey Cake comes from a cookbook that adapts recipes for the modern-day kitchen. This holiday season, take a bite from the past with a taste of rye and seltzer.

Rye Flour Honey Cake (Pareve)

Serves 8-10

Ingredients:

2 cups honey

2 cups sugar

¼ cup seltzer

4 eggs

¾ cup oil

4 cups rye flour

4 cups white flour

ground cloves

Directions:

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

Lightly grease a large cake pan (9x11x14) or Bundt pan with oil or nonstick spray.

Beat together the honey, sugar (dissolved in a little water), seltzer, eggs, oil and a few finely ground cloves.

Stir in the rye flour and white flour. Beat well.

Pour into the lightly greased baking pan, and bake for 1 hour.

Test cake and bake for 5 minutes more, if necessary.

From “The Vilna Vegetarian Cookbook” (page 142) by Fania Lewando, the proprietor of a popular vegetarian restaurant in Vilna who was killed during the Holocaust.

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