Medianyk (honey cake)

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.