306 The Honey-Makers 



in high esteem, as we learn from Archippus in " Heracles 

 Marrying," — 



"The board was loaded with rich honey-cakes." 



Honeycakes were made of cereals of various sorts mixed 

 with honey, and sometimes they were made of oil and 

 honey. 



The food Chrysocolla, made of honey and flax, most of 

 us would be content to leave to the ancients, as also the 

 gifts designed for the maiden whom Ibycus thus sings : 



" Bring gifts unto the maiden, cakes of cesame, 

 And groats, and cakes of oil and honey mixed, 

 And other kinds of pastry, and fresh honey." 



We must not overlook a certain thin cake made of 

 sesame and honey which has had the honor of being 

 mentioned by Anacreon, Aristophanes, and Sophocles. 



Philetas in his " Miscellanies" speaks of cakes of honey, 

 made and sold by a regular baker. 



At the Copis, a Spartan feast, every one receives " a por- 

 tion of goat's flesh, and to each a little loaf made of oil and 

 honey, a newly made cheese, a slice of paunch, and black 

 pudding, and sweetmeats and dried figs, and beans and 

 green kidney beans." 



Ephippus makes the following confession : — 



" Cakes made of sesame and honey, sweetmeats. 

 Cheese-cakes, and cream-cakes, and a hecatomb 

 Of new-laid eggs, were all devour'd by us." 



There must be mentioned sesamides, cakes made of 

 honey and roasted sesame and oil, of a round shape, not 

 unlike the sugar cookies of our childhood probably ; and 

 there are the encrides, which are frequently alluded to. 

 These are cakes boiled in oil, and after that "seasoned 

 with honey." These certainly are the classical progenitors 



