Categories: Cakes, Christmas, Russian, Ethnic, Holiday 
      Yield: 10 servings 
  
      4 oz Butter 
      4 lg Eggs 
     14 oz Honey 
     14 oz Unbleached All-Purpose Flour 
           -; 3 Cups 
    1/2 ts Ground Ginger 
    1/2 ts Ground Nutmeg 
    1/2 ts Ground Cloves 
      1 ts Cinnamon 
      2 ts Baking Powder 
  
  Cream the butter and separate the eggs.  Add the room temperature yolks, 
  one at a time, to the butter and beat well.  Mix in the honey.  Sift the 
  flour, baking powder, and spices twice and add to the butter mixture. Whip 
  the egg whites until stiff.  Fold a little of the egg whites into the 
  batter, then add the rest of them, folding them gently into the batter. 
  Pour the batter into a guttered and floured loaf pan.  Bake in a preheated 
  350 Degrees F. oven until firm on top and a toothpick inserted in the 
  center comes out clean, about 1 hour.  Cool, in the pan, for 10 minutes, 
  then remove and finish cooling on a wire rack.