Sister Sadie’s Rosh Hashanah Honey Cake

This recipe comes from Matzoh Ball Gumbo: Culinary Tales of the Jewish South, by Marcie Cohen Ferris. Poignant photographs grace this extraordinary book, including a formal family portrait of Isadore and Jennie Gottlieb with their five small daughters. The couple opened Gottlieb’s Bakery in Savannah in 1884, and within a decade or two, their daughter Sadie had grown up to be their master baker, renowned far and wide for her classic Southern benne cookies, praline cake, and chocolate