Q: Did Lane cake, a type of sponge cake with a filling of fruit and whiskey, originate in Alabama?
A: Yes. The cake was created by Emma Rylander Lane of Clayton in Barbour County. According to an Encyclopedia of Alabama article, the recipe was first printed in her self-published cookbook “Some Good Things to Eat” in 1898.
“She originally named the cake the Prize cake, but an acquaintance convinced her to lend her own name to the dessert,” the article says. People are also reading… “The Lane cake has been subjected to countless modifications and twists over the years,” the article says. “Coconut, dried fruit, and nuts are common additions to the filling described in the original recipe. Home bakers who wish to avoid the whiskey or brandy in the original recipe have substituted grape juice, especially for children's birthdays. Another common variation is to ice the entire cake with the filling mixture.
In the novel To Kill a Mockingbird, by Alabama native Harper Lee, character Maudie Atkinson bakes a Lane cake to welcome Aunt Alexandra when she comes to live with the Finch family. Noting the cake's alcoholic kick, the character Scout remarks,"Miss Maudie baked a Lane cake so loaded with shinny it made me tight." Shinny is a slang term for liquor.
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