The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-12-08
EADY BALTIMORE CAKE.
Plan OF CONSTRUCTION % q DeIicnry aaade
Famous by q Novel.

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Famous by q Novel.
Did Owen WiNter, when he wrote Lady.
Baltimore and finished the last chapter
without giving any idea of what the cake
was like, plan to launch . topic that would
agitate housekeepers In n regular The
Lady or the Tiger" fashion, Whatever
his motive the silence OF the book ON this
point has made Lady Baltimore the most
discussed cake in the country.
Any number Of recipes have been pub
ished or circulated as the real Lady Balu-
more. In the South, especially in the
C~ayolinas, Lady Baltimore parties have
been given for various charitable purposes
TO which Lady Baltimore cakes of widely
varying appearance and composition have
been donated for a cake sale or for refresh
ments. Readings or tableanx have been
gwen from the book and Lady Baltimore
cake has been served.
IL has been a money Garner ia many
ways. The recipe itself, or a recipe rather,
has been sold for IS a copy, with the pro-
viso that it shall not be passed on or the
cake sold except for charitable, religious
or patriotic purposes. Many cakes have
been made by one D.. A.. r. chapter, the
proceeds going toward the amount the
chapter waspledged to raise for the ID. A. X.
building at Washington.
The story, rs most people know, wa
located in Charleston. 8. c., and some Of
the things in IL really happened. The
Woman's Exchange, where the teller OF the
story had his almost daily piece Of Lady
Baltimore cake and listened tO his hero
order a Lady Baltimore for his wedding
cake and then countermand it and order
and countermand again, has found the
cake a prolific source OF income since it
was introduced to the world.
HI glass showcase for Calses always
contains more loaves of it than of all other
kinds Of cake combined. Rarely does y.
day pass without orders being received
for Lady Baltimore to travel 10 various
parts of this country and even To sail for
foreign shores.
AT a tea garden run at Magnolia. Mass.
the summer before last by the wife OF a
retired Admiral. Lady Baltimore WAS the
pet order at the price OF IS cents Tor a small
shce. with tbs diplomatic summer circle
ana New ~England's wealth al its patrons.
One OF the women's exchanges in Boston
keeps two women making Lady Baltimore
all the timo. Both the tea garden and tns
Boston plscas send o1t cakes with pink
trostlng, but in Charleston only white is
seen at tho exchange.
No one who has read the book fails to
De surprised when no first sses the cake.
In the story Lady Baltimore is ordered for
a wedding cake. Only loaf cakes are asso-
clated wlth ceremonials such as weddinRs.
put Lazy Baltimore Is a layer cake, a three
layer cake, and whom It is Teally finished it
looks like a rocky field from which the snow
mas partly blown and over all of which has
fallen a shining slice: coat.
VI course IT, happens that little touck 81
are often, sometime5 deliberately, omitted
IN transferring n specially famous recipe
from It's maker to other individuals, but
TINS II the recipe as il was obtained from the
charleston cake maker except that in the
lclhG the famous van Duzen proportions of
sugar and water are Used:
Cream one pound Of fin" sifted ~granUSlted
sugar with one-nalf pound Of butter. Sapa-
rate yolks and whites OF eight eggs. Stir
in the yolke, beating after each.
Add ono pound Of -four sifted with four
teaspoonfulS Of baking rowder alternately
WITH one cup OF milk. Add one t~elsrooufIl
stiff.
Make boiled icing. using Torr Guns Of
sugar with twSnty Tablespoonful Il of boiling
water. When boiled TO n thread poJr over
four egg whites which have rot been beaten
at all. Do rot start pouring n thin thread
OF the boiled sugar and water on the whites
when beating but pour a "a blespOonfIl or
more at once into the whites. thus avoiding
Jumping unless the sugar and water has
ben1 boiled FOO far.
Flavor with vanilla and add one cup
7 WV AbAH II y IA JIG AMI OtHH CID OF nnG
chopped walnut or pecan meats, IIcoan being
preferred.
This quantity of cake ba.tcr ia expected
10 make six layers ar two cakes. The nut
and raisin /, ling is put over the top Of tha
cakes "a we'll as between tho layers and nj.
the exchange 1t ~ put ON soft enough 40
that before il becomes firm some of the
icing slides down The sides ~ Inc rake and
can be worked over them until the whole
cake ia coated.
In most cases = second batch Of plain
icing ~ prepared sufficient 10 pour over
the top of the cake so that the rough s~Jrfaoe
is glazed. II this boiled icing becomes
too thick to handle while spreading the
two cakes d some unbea;en white Of exr
to- and il will be easily handled again.
The cakes a; the exchange are substantial
looking affairs. b1t only . man would think
OF ordering one for a wedding cake. except
as a matter Of sentiment. Cha rlest0n
ladies' say that up to about the time he
cake was nut into the story IL was favored
with vanilla. but since about that lime
vanilla in the frosting.
In the controversy over the real cake
there has como to a few women what il
more likely an original Lady Baltimore
cake, one that will certainly better satisfy
q reader idea OF the cake as il figures in
the book. IL is described as the exact
formula for making old time Lady Baltj-
more cake or plantation brides cake
1t calls Tor one pound Of -four, one pound
OF white sugar mot specified whether
powdered or granulated. but many OF the
old time Southern recipes call for plum
sugar pounded or rolled and sifted), whites
Of twenty-fOur eggs, th~ree-quarters OF a
pound OF fresh unsalted butter and two
t~eespoonfuls OF extract of rose. II is prac-
ucally a white pound cake. Tn directions
are rather oldtimey.
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