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In Greece and Italy: Honeycakes

Honeycakes that were not cheesecakes were also held in high esteem, as we learn from Archippus in "Heracles Marrying," - - "The board was loaded with rich honey-cakes."

Honeycakes were made of cereals of various sorts mixed with honey, and sometimes they were made of oil and honey.

The food Chrysocolla, made of honey and flax, most of us would be content to leave to the ancients, as also the gifts designed for the maiden whom Ibycus thus sings : "Bring gifts unto the maiden, cakes of cesame, And groats, and cakes of oil and honey mixed, And other kinds of pastry, and fresh honey."