Russian historian Lee Farrow, professor of history at Auburn University, just completed the first book-length study of Alexis’s tour of the United States, and she has found nothing to support that legend.
Located in the Marigny neighborhood of New Orleans, Alois J. Binder Bakery sends french bread and sandwich loaves throughout town via their “Poor Boy Express” delivery trucks, but they also produce an excellent, traditional Russian cake. {{ image(3289, {“class”: “fill”, “width”: “600”, “height”: “426”}) }}. The recipe submitted by a woman from Lafayette seemed meant for a commercial bakery as it produced a 21-pound cake. Another essential ingredient in the Binders’ product is their grandfather’s recipe for raspberry jelly. Offer available only in the U.S. (including Puerto Rico). The Charles A. Kaufman Co. department store on Dryades Street placed one of the first newspaper bakery ads in 1923. Coupled with the traditional rum, this family separate Binder’s Russian cake from the rest. These days, Russian cake devotees find it harder to track down their beloved dessert. The cake scraps, along with two glassfuls of jelly, four and a half cups of sugar, a bit of rum, and two boxes of white cake mix, yielded a 21-pound Russian cake. More surprisingly, a number of residents in the region of North East England also started to chime in regarding their individual quests for recipes and information about bakeries still producing this disappearing delicacy. But the late food historian Michael Mizell-Nelson put this theory to rest, writing that there was no documentation to confirm this story. New Orleans bakeries sell many more cakes during the holiday season, and some only produce it during November and December. One reader bemoaned that the cake could not be found in North West England: Thank you for solving a mystery. Mizell-Nelson offered instead that Russian cake may have been an offshoot of the raspberry trifle, or even the Austrian/German punschtorte. This week, as the Crescent City revels in the hoopla of Carnival and King Cakes are demolished by the ton, we’re bringing you the history of the endangered Russian Cake written by historian Michael Mizell-Nelson, a tireless champion of working people’s histories, food and otherwise. How an English raspberry trifle or an Austrian torte transformed into a Russian cake and ended up on the endangered treats list in at least two parts of the Atlantic world remains an enigma.
Mary Binder Walters continues to use homemade raspberry jam and real rum to yield a moist cake that can reconnect New Orleanians to their childhood memories. According to legend, Russian Cake, known as Creole Trifle, dates back to 1872, when the Russian Grand Duke Alexis Alexandrovich Romanov visited New Orleans for Mardi Gras (the song “If I Ever Cease to Love” was written for the very same occasion).
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Be the first to share a photo of this item with our community. 4037 Jefferson Hwy, New Orleans, LA, While this is decadent, it pales in comparison to some versions: A recipe for a giant Russian cake, found in the archives of The Times-Picayune from the 1980s, and submitted by a reader from Lafayette, called for 15 pounds of cake leftovers and serious carpentry skills. À la Russe, of course, means “in the Russian style.”.
© 2020 Atlas Obscura. Very rich and moist, this is sure to please the palate. It’s more likely a variation on one of a number of older desserts, such as the raspberry trifle, whose universality is indicated by its inclusion in the Joy of Cooking.
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