Tuesday 25 October 2011
'Quite an Accomplished Baker'
I found this item - which came to me via Frank Wilson and Dave Lull - strangely cheering. There's something about the image of Emily Dickinson in an apron working up a healthy glow as she gets to work on her cake mixture (no food processors then) while the oven heats up... I wonder which other great writers might have made good bakers - apart, of course, from Mr Kipling with his exceedingly good cakes. My cousin suggests Emily Bronte - 'given the right ingredients'. Charlotte too was probably a safe pair of hands in the kitchen. I doubt George Eliot could bake a cake...
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Henry Thoreau is said to have been the first person to bake raisin bread.
ReplyDeleteGood Lord! Thanks for that Patrick - I suspect it will lodge in my mind for ever...
ReplyDeleteI remember seeing Julie Harris in The Belle of Amherst in Chicago in 1976. She opened the play by reciting the recipe for ED's black cake*:
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*"This is my introduction. Black cake. My own special recipe. Forgive me if I'm frightened. I never see strangers and hardly know what I say. My sister, Lavinia — she's younger than I — she says I tend to wander back and forth in time. So you must bear with me."
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http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~mjw/recipes/cake/belle-amherst-black-cake.html
Magnificent, Dave - thanks! That's quite some cake...
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