Excerpt from the Market Newsletter originally published on 23 June, 2010. View the full newsletter for all the photos and links.
Cooking, and reading about cooking
For this week's recipes I have a couple of interesting things to do with honey from a little Bermudian cookbook in my collection: What's cooking in Bermuda, by Betsy Ross, published by Mrs. Douglas Hunter starting in 1957, mine being the 1974 revision. Starry Lane Apiary has jars of lovely honey for sale at the market and I think the first onions will show up as soon as we get a little warm weather, but you'll probably have to go into an actual store for the rum.
Honey onions
1 lb onions
1/4 cup rum
1/4 cup honey
2 Tbsp butter
Boil onions in salted water until tender-crisp; drain. Place in a large frying pan over low heat with remaining ingredients. Cook, turning often and spooning liquid over the onions, until onions are well glazed.
Honey Spice Cake
3 eggs, separated
1 cup sugar
3/4 cup honey
1/2 cup salad oil
juice and grated rind of 1/2 lemon
1/2 cup very strong coffee, cooled
1/2 cup raisins
3/4 cup coarsely broken walnuts
2 cups sifted flour
1 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 tsp cinnamon
1/4 tsp nutmeg
1/8 tsp ground ginger
1/8 tsp ground cloves
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line a 9 x 13-inch pan with foil. Beat egg yolks until thick; add sugar and beat until well mixed. Add honey and beat some more. Mix in oil. Stir in juice and rind. Sift flour with the other dry ingredients and use some of this mixture to flour the raisins. Add flour mixture and coffee alternately to honey mixture, beginning and ending with flour. Add nuts and raisins with the last of the flour. Beat egg whites until stiff; fold into batter. Pour into pan and bake 65 minutes or until done (when a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean). Partially cool in the pan, then turn out on a cake rack and peel of the foil. If desired, frost with lemon-flavored butter icing when completely cooled.
Hmm, I wonder if us non-coffee drinkers could use rum instead.
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