So I notice it says vegetable oil up there. This doesn't jive with ingredient availability of the era. I have yet to see actual recipes from the era use anything other than butter, or other animal fats. Plant based oils at their earliest were largely limited to Central Asia as of 1780. And we don't see the introduction of any functional scale availability of such oils in Europe/North America till 1911. They didn't really gain popularity till the 1960s. So shouldn't this "1890" Honey Cake use 2 tablespoons butter, melted or solid?