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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

  • 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

  • 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

  • This honey-cake, which before used always to be consumed, was at this time left untouched.

    The History of Herodotus Herodotus 2003

  • "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

  • “Papa, papa! give me a honey-cake,” he threatened him and stamped at him so fiercely that the frightened child fled, God knows whither.

    How the Two Ivans Quarrelled 2003

  • 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

  • You are rich; go buy yourself a bier, and I will knead you a honey-cake for Cerberus.

    Lysistrata 2000

  • 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

  • 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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