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A Lane Cake, also known as a 'Prize Cake' or an 'Alabama Lane Cake' is a bourbon-laden baked cake traditional in the American South. According to food scholar Neil Ravenna, the inventor was Emma Rylander Lane, of Clayton, Alabama, who won first prize with it at the county fair in Columbus, Georgia.〔(Encyclopedia of Alabama: Lane Cake )〕 She called it ''Prize Cake'' when she self-published a cookbook, "Some Good Things To Eat" in 1898.〔Lane, Emma Rylander. Some Good Things to Eat. 1989. Reprint, Clayton, Ala.: The Clayton Record, 1976.〕 Her published recipe included raisins, pecans, and coconut, and called for the layers to be baked in pie tins lined with ungreased brown paper rather than in cake pans. The Lane Cake is sometimes confused with the Lady Baltimore cake, which also is a liquor-laden fruit-filled cake, but of different pedigree.〔 Many variations of the Lane Cake now exist, with as many as thirteen layers of white sponge cake, separated by a filling that typically includes candied fruit soaked in a generous amount of bourbon or sometimes brandy. It may be frosted on the top, on the sides, or both. ==Recipe== Although the cake has a reputation as being difficult to make, this is no longer true.〔(Loaded with Shinny: Lane Cakes & To Kill A Mockingbird )〕 When the recipe originated, there were no stand mixers, nor electric hand mixers, and even hand-crank eggbeaters were not universally available, which meant a lot of hard labor beating egg whites to frothy soft peaks. The wood-fired ovens of the time had no thermostats, making it difficult to produce a white cake. Modern refrigeration also makes it easier to produce a stiff filling, allowing one to build an orderly multi-layer cake, rather than a sticky, lopsided dessert. Krystina Castella and Terry Lee Stone include a recipe for Lane Cake in their cookbook ''Booze Cakes: Confections Spiked With Spirits, Wine, and Beer''〔Booze Cakes: Confections Spiked With Spirits, Wine, and Beer, Quirk Books (2010) ISBN 978-1-59474-423-5〕 which uses 2 tablespoons of bourbon in the cake, 1 cup in the filling, and a buttercream frosting made from 1 cup unsalted butter, 1/4 cup half-and-half, 3 cups confectioner's sugar, 1/4 cup bourbon, and 1/4 teaspoon salt. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Lane cake」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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