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So if you are looking for a lower-fat version of this sort of warm, spicy honey-cake, I'd recommend you go for this instead: yes, it will have a slightly drier, breadier consistency, but it also doesn't contain any butter or oil, so is lower in the calorie-stakes.
Archive 2005-10-01 Niki 2005
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So if you are looking for a lower-fat version of this sort of warm, spicy honey-cake, I'd recommend you go for this instead: yes, it will have a slightly drier, breadier consistency, but it also doesn't contain any butter or oil, so is lower in the calorie-stakes.
Beekeepers' Honey Cake Niki 2005
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Athenians say that a great serpent lives in the temple1256 and guards the Acropolis; and they not only say this, but also they set forth for it monthly offerings, as if it were really there; and the offering consists of a honey-cake.
The History of Herodotus Herodotus 2003
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This honey-cake, which before used always to be consumed, was at this time left untouched.
The History of Herodotus Herodotus 2003
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"That was at the beginning, when they had the crystal spear-thrower " Alucius went on to explain that, ending as the servers brought in small slices of honey-cake.
Darkness Modesitt, L. E. 2003
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“Papa, papa! give me a honey-cake,” he threatened him and stamped at him so fiercely that the frightened child fled, God knows whither.
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First give me a honey-cake, for to descend down there sets me all a-tremble; it looks like the cave of
The Clouds 2000
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You are rich; go buy yourself a bier, and I will knead you a honey-cake for Cerberus.
Lysistrata 2000
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The oats were bland and unappealing, but he found that if he crushed the honey-cake and sprinkled it over the mixture the effect was more appetising.
The Hawk Eternal Gemmell, David 1995
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The beef was sliced nearly thin enough to see through and wrapped around something made from carrots, sweetbeans, chives and goatcheese, and there was even a small honey-cake for dessert.
The Fires of Heaven Jordan, Robert, 1948- 1993
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