Lady Baltimore cake

A Lady Baltimore cake is an American white layer cake with fluffy frosting and a fruit and nut filling. The cake is believed to have been created in the Southern United States in the early 20th century, but its exact origins are disputed.
History.
The most popular legend of the Lady Baltimore is that Alicia Rhett Mayberry, a Southern belle, baked and served the cake to novelist Owen Wister in Charleston, South Carolina. Wister was said to have been so enamored with the cake that he used it as the namesake of his novel, "Lady Baltimore".
Wister included a description of the cake in "Lady Baltimore":
According to food historians, the cake may have actually originated with Florence and Nina Ottelengui, the longtime managers of Charleston's Lady Baltimore Tea Room, who developed the cake based on a version of the common Queen cake from the late nineteenth century. The Ottelenguis are said to have annually baked and shipped a cake to Owen Wister as a "thanks" for making their creation famous, and were known to ship hundreds of cakes around the country at Christmastime.
The first recorded mentions of a cake with the name of "Lady Baltimore" began appearing in 1906, with several newspaper articles referring to it as the "famous" or "original" cake.
Recipe.
The first printings of the recipe were copied in several newspapers, including Harrisburg, Pennsylvania's "Daily Gazette and Bulletin", "The Columbus Journal", and "The Washington Times", in 1906:
Modern versions of the recipe may call for a meringue, boiled, or seven-minute frosting, and may include rum or liqueurs in the filling. The cake itself may be white or yellow. There is also a version known as the "Lord Baltimore cake" made with the leftover egg yolks instead of whites.
In popular culture.
In "File for Record" a 1943 mystery by Phoebe Atwood Taylor, Constance "Pink" Lately makes a Lady Baltimore cake to bring to a Victory Swop. The detective, Leonidas Witherall, swops the cake for a papier-mache lion's head. The cake makes several appearances throughout the book.
In "The Wrysons" a short story by John Cheever, Donald Wryson secretly makes a Lady Baltimore cake every night he feels miserably.
In The Simpsons season 8 episode Grade School Confidential, Agnes Skinner shows Bart Simpson her collection of photos of cakes that she clips out of magazines. The first photo she describes to Bart is a Lady Baltimore cake. 