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From Biscuits to Lane Cake: Emma Rylander Lane's "Some Good Things to Eat"

Edited by: Evan A. Kutzler
Publisher: Mercer University Press
ISBN: 9780881469028
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From Biscuits to Lane Cake: Emma Rylander Lane's "Some Good Things to Eat"
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When the Lane cake, named after Emma Rylander Lane (1856-1904), appeared in Harper Lee's TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD (1960), the boozy Southern dessert was at peak popularity. Yet the culinary artist behind the cake had fallen into obscurity. FROM BISCUITS TO LANE CAKE recovers Lane's biography, as well as the recipes she published in SOME GOOD THINGS TO EAT (1898) and the Columbus Enquirer-Sun. More Details