Bible recipes - easter special: bible cake with honey (exodus 16:31)

Ingredients you need

• 3 tablespoon oil (Exodus 26:40)
• 10 dag sugar
• 1 tablespoon of honey (Genesis 43:11)
• 40 dag flour (Exodus 29:40)
• 0,25 l water (Exodus 17:6)
• little salt (Leviticus 2:13)
• half spoon minced cinnamon (Jeremiah 6:20)
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1 baking powder (1 Corinthians 5:6)
• 3 spoon jam

Directions

All components leave at room temperature. Mix all with electric mixer. While mixing add the hot honey. Before you stir the flour, add baking soda and baking powder. The dough is slightly thicker.

Add to mixture

• 15 dag raisins (1 Samuel 25:18)
• 10 dag chopped almonds (Exodus 43:11)(or roasted hazelnuts)
• 10 dag chopped dry figs (Jeremiah 24:5)

Preheat oven greased and sprinkled with bread crumbs in elongated tray at a moderate temperature for 40 to 45 minutes. Let it cool down and serve to your loved ones.

Makes: 25 pieces.

Bon apetit and happy Easter.. Emely

Ingredients you need

• 5 pounds ready to eat ham
• ¼ cup whole cloves
• ¼ cup dark corn syrup
• 2 cups honey
• ⅔ cup butter

Directions

Score ham, and stud with the whole cloves. Place ham in foil lined pan. In the top half of a double boiler, heat the corn syrup, honey and butter. Keep glaze warm while baking ham. Brush glaze over ham, and bake at 325F for 1 hour and 15 minutes in a preheated oven. Baste ham every 10 to 15 minutes with the honey glaze. During the last 4 to 5 minutes of baking, turn on broiler to caramelize the glaze. Remove from oven, and let sit a few minutes before serving.

Bon apetit and happy Easter.. Emely

An old and beautiful legend says that, at the time of the crucifixion, the dogwood was comparable in size to the oak tree and other monarchs of the forest. Because of its firmness and strength it was selected as the timber for the cross, but to be put to such a cruel use greatly distressed the tree. Sensing this, the crucified Jesus in his gentle pity for the sorrow and suffering of all said to it: "Because of your sorrow and pity for My sufferings, never again will the dogwood tree grow large enough to be used as a cross.

Henceforth it will be slender, bent and twisted and its blossoms will be in the form of a cross two long and two short petals. In the center of the outer edge of each petal there will be nail prints brown with rust and stained with red and in the center of the flower will be a crown of thorns, and all who see this will remember."

Many years ago, a dogwood tree grew on a hill outside Jerusalem. In those days, the dogwood tree was as tall and mighty as an oak, and this tree was the tallest of all the dogwoods, and extremely proud of its strength. "Something wonderful is going to happen to me," it said to anyone who would listen. "I'll probably become the mast that holds the big sail on a grand ship, or the main timber supporting a great house."

Unfortunately, the huge old dogwood was cut down to become the cross to which Jesus was nailed. The tree was horrified. All its dreams of glory were smashed, and it groaned in agony as two boards from its trunk were nailed together. Jesus took pity on the tree, even as he carried it to Calvary. "You will never be put to such use again," He told it. "From this day on, your shape will change, even as will the world. You will become slender and sway easily with the breeze. And instead of acorns, you will bear flowers in the shape of a cross... with two long and two short petals. In the center of the outer edge of each petal, there will be nail prints... brown with rust and red with bloodstains to show the world how you have suffered."

"Last of all, the center of your flowers will be marked as though with a crown of thorns to remind people forevermore, that you and I spent our last moments together." And so it was.