Taai-taai

Taai-taai translates as tough-tough or chewy-chewy, as these honey cakes are incredibly tough, though not as rock-hard as couque de Dinant. A bakery manual from the 1950s has five recipes, all with different ratios of honey, sugar and light and dark syrup. The dough is made in the traditional way, beginning with a mother dough of honey and rye flour, which is left to rest. The next day, or even weeks later, all the other ingredients – more fl