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Lane cake

Lane cake noun: a bourbon-laced sponge cake with fruit, traditional in the American South.

Noun

Lane cake

  1. A bourbon-laced sponge cake with fruit, traditional in the American South.

Synonyms of Lane cake

Origin of Lane cake

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.

Questions about Lane cake

What does Lane cake mean?
Lane cake means a bourbon-laced sponge cake with fruit, traditional in the American South.
What part of speech is Lane cake?
Lane cake is a noun.

Words near Lane cake in the dictionary

  1. landyke
  2. landykes
  3. Landyn
  4. Landys
  5. lane
  6. Lane cake
  7. Lane County
  8. Lane Cove
  9. Lane Cove North
  10. Lane Cove West
  11. Lane End

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