Ingredients:

• 2 tablespoons butter or margarine
• 1 cup honey
• 1 egg, beaten
• 2 1/2 cups self-raising flour
• 1/2 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 3/4 cup milk
• 3/4 cup chopped walnuts

Method:

1. Beat butter or margarine and honey until creamy in a large bowl with electric mixer at high speed; beat in egg.
2. Sift flour, bicarbonate of soda and salt onto waxed paper. Stir into honey mixtures alternately with milk. Add walnuts. Turn into greased 23 x 13 x 8 cm loaf tin.
3. Bake in moderate oven 1 hour 10 minutes, or until centre springs back when lightly pressed with fingertip. Cool in tin on wire rack for 5 minutes. Loosen cake around edges with a sharp knife. Turn out of tin. Cool completely.