Mrs. Emma Rylander Lane of Clayton, Alabama, included this recipe, which she called her prize cake, in a small cookbook she self-published in 1898. She used only chopped raisins in the filling, but later versions typically include shredded coconut and pecans as well. Some people love the filling so much that they make extra and use it to ice the entire cake. I use the coconutpecan variation in my filling recipe and cover the cake with that sweet, fluffy, old-time white fros
