Lady Baltimore Cake

Name: Lady Baltimore Cake
Prep time: 25 min
Cook time: 40 min
Total time: 1 h 5 min
Yield: Serves 8–10
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 8 walnut halves; 315 g (10½ oz) icing sugar, sifted; a pinch of salt; 2 tablespoons dry or medium sherry; 3 egg whites; 6 dates, stoned and chopped; 40 g (1½ oz) walnuts, chopped; 50 g (2 oz) raisins, chopped; 65 g (2½ oz) plain flour, plus a little extra; 1 teaspoon baking powder; 250 g (8 oz) vanilla caster sugar; 65 g (2½ oz) potato flour; 125 g (4 oz) butter, plus extra for greasing; 7 egg whites

Preparation info

Serves
8–10

Difficulty
Medium
Ready in
1 hr 5

Appears in

American Baking

By Patricia Lousada

Published 1986

About

The original recipe for this Charleston cake appeared in an early 19th-century novel hy Owen Wister entitled ‘Lady Baltimore’. See for a note on vanilla sugar and vanilla essences.

Ingredients

For the cake

125 g (4 oz) butter, plus extra for greasing
7 egg whites

Americas
United States
Cake
Baking
Vegetarian

Method

A few hours in advance, combine the fruit and nuts for the icing with the sherry and leave them to stand for several hours.

Grease and flour three 20 cm (8-inch) cake tins and line the bases with b