Lady Baltimore Cake

It’s debatable which of the South’s elaborate cakes is more ceremonial: Lane cake or Lady Baltimore cake. What is for sure is that the latter is in no way connected with the city of Baltimore but, rather, with Owen Wister’s 1906 romantic novel entitled Lady Baltimore, in which the cake is described. In reality, the luscious cake was most probably created in Charleston, South Carolina, by Alicia Rhett Mayberry around the turn of the twentieth century and not named til