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American Cakes: Lane Cake - History of Lane Cake and a Traditional Recipe for this Classic Southern Boozy Layer Cake From Food Historian Gil Marks. | ToriAvey.com #lanecake #layercake #cake #gilmarks #foodhistory #southernrecipe #dessert #TorisKitchen

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Alabama - Lane Cake So Alabama - since you’re up first, I’m basing my selection for your State Sweet on The Encyclopedia of Alabama and a quote from To Kill A Mockingbird . I hope this suits y’all, but if not - we can have a second entry so let me know. History OK, According to the Encyclopedia of Alabama, the Lane Cake was created by Alabama native, Emma Rylander Lane and was included in her cookbook, Some Good Things to Eat, in 1898. The consists of white sponge cake layers with a filling…

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“Miss Maudie Atkinson baked a Lane cake so loaded with shinny it made me tight,” Scout recalls of her neighbor’s famous dessert in Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird. Lane Cake is a Southern classic, with the recipe dating back to the late-nineteenth century, when Emma Rylander Lane of Clayton, Alabama, used it to win - Page 2

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Emma Rylander Lane created her Lane Cake back in the late Victorian era, and it soon became a Southern classic. In 1967, the original recipe - first published in Lane's cookbook back in 1898 - was brought up-to-date by her granddaughter (and namesake) Emma Rylander Law, and that's the one featured here.

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This Lane cake recipe comes from Edna Lewis and Scott Peacock, co-authors of "The Gift of Southern Cooking." The delicious layered dessert — rich with raisins, pecans, coconut, and bourbon — was created in Alabama in the late 19th century and has been a Southern favorite ever since.

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