Now You Too Can Bake Like Emily Dickinson This Holiday Season
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Now You Too Can Bake Like Emily Dickinson This Holiday Season
Emily’s recipe for Coconut Cake. The image above shows the ingredients scratched out in her handwriting:
On the flip side of the recipe, Dickinson then wrote the beginning of a poem, “The Things that never can come back, are... See more
1 cup coconut
2 cups flour
1 cup sugar
1/2 cup butter
1/2 cup milk
2 eggs
1/2 teaspoon soda
1 teaspoon cream of tartar
On the flip side of the recipe, Dickinson then wrote the beginning of a poem, “The Things that never can come back, are... See more
Emily Dickinson’s Handwritten Coconut Cake Recipe Hints at How Baking Figured Into Her Creative Process
The kitchen appears to be one of the rooms where Dickinson felt most comfortable, perhaps most at home, and her letters give frequent testimony to the pleasures of family conversation held there. The many drafts of poems written on kitchen papers tell us also that this was a space of creative ferment for her, and that the writing of poetry mixed in... See more