Beulah Levy Ledner, 1894-1988

Born into a family of Hungarian-Jewish bakers in St. Rose, Louisiana, Beulah Ledner achieved international fame for her invention of the Doberge cake, an adaptation of an Austrian and Hungarian Dobas Torta. From the early 1930s in her Mrs. Charles Ledner’s Superior Home Baking enterprise, she also sold other products and later ran a tearoom in the basement of her home on Upperline Street, serving Tulane students. She worked until age 87, always knowing that one secret to happiness was in the light cream and the French name chosen for her famous cake.