Lady Baltimore Cake (1889)

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   OED has 1906 for this American creation.  The standard story is this, from the Food Network web site:


Lady Baltimore cake

Definition: A moist, three-layered white cake with a succulent filling of raisins, nuts and sometimes other fruit such as figs. The cake is covered with a fluffy white frosting such as boiled icing. It was first mentioned by novelist Owen Wister in his 1906 novel, Lady Baltimore. Legend has it that a young woman gave Wister such a cake, which he later chronicled in his novel. See also Lord Baltimore cake.

--Copyright (c) 1995 by Barron's Educational Series, from The New Food Lover's Companion, Second Edition, by Sharon Tyler Herbst


   So how does one find this on Accessible Archives?

   August 1889, LADIES' HOME JOURNAL, pg. 19:
      ANSWERS TO QUERIES.
   Mrs. K. J. H.  Lady Baltimore Cake.  Beat half a cup of butter to a cream, adding gradually one and a half cups of sugar.  When very light add three quarter cups of cold water and two cups of flour; beat well, and stir in half the well beaten whites of four eggs.  Have ready one cup of English walnuts cut into small pieces, flour them well, stir into the cake, add the remainder of white of the eggs, and a teaspoon of baking powder.
   Bake in a moderate oven for fifty minutes.