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Emily Dickinson
Welcome Emily Dickinson Fans! This site is dedicated to that 19th century woman. We have a recipe of hers updated for modern kitchens. Poems of the week. And more!! We hope you enjoy your stay!
Emily Dickinson was born 10 December 1830 in Amherst, Massachusetts, USA. She lived a private life: only ten of her poems were published in her lifetime. She cooked,(scroll down for a recipe) tended a lovely garden, and sent baskets with notes,or poems, and flowers to friends and sick town folk. After her death on 15 May 1886, over 1700 poems, which she had bound into booklets, were discovered. The fame of her poetry has spread until now she is acclaimed throughout the world.
Emily Dickinson's
Black Cake Recipe
updated for modern kitchens
Place a shallow pan of water on the bottom of the oven. Preheat oven to 225 F.
2 cups sugar
1/2 pound butter
5 eggs
1/4 cup molasses
2 cups sifted flour
1/2 tsp baking soda
1 tsp cloves
1 tsp mace
1 tsp cinnamon
1/2 nutmeg, ground
1/4-1/2 cup brandy
1 pound raisins
2/3 pound currants
2/3 pound citron
Add sugar gradually to butter; blend until light and creamy. Add unbeaten eggs & molasses. Beat well. Resift flour with soda and spices. If you're using unsalted butter, add 1/2 tsp salt.
Beat sifted ingredients into mixture, alternately adding brandy. Stir in raisins, currants, and citron.
Pour batter into two loaf pans lined with waxed paper.
Bake at 225 F for 3 hours (this is not a typo). Remove pan of water for last 1/2 hour. Let loaves cool before removing from pans.
Remove paper and wrap in fresh paper.
Poems of the week:
1. When Etna basks and purrs,
Naples is more afraid
Than when she shows her Garnet Tooth
security is loud
2. Witchcraft has no pedigree,
'T is early as our breath
And mourners meet it going out
Tho moment of our death
Emily Dickinson's poems speak to me. They relate to how I feel about everyday life. She lived a life of solitude and I feel like I do to. Emily Dickinson was an amazing lady to have over 1700 wonderful works. But only publish ten.(some sources say 11 but one was published twice)She twisted words. And her words twist into what we think of her. I'm glad that the image most get is of an amazing lady who was kind and a real poet.
Here are some quotes I've found in books by or about Emily Dickinson:
- From Dancing on the Edge "I'm Nobody! Who are you?" ~Emily Dickinson
- From The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson "Only eleven of Emily Dickinson's poems were published prior to her death in 1886; the startling originality of her worked doomed it to obscurity in her lifetime. Early posthumously published collections-some of them featuring liberally "edited" versions of the poems-did not fully and accuratly represent Dickinson's bold experiments in prosody, her tragis vision and the range of her intellectual and emotional explorations..." ~Anonymous
- From Dancing on the Edge "The Truth must dazzle gradually or every man be blind" ~Emily Dickinson
Check out my other site
Dickinson Electronic Archives
Emily Dickinson Poems
Dickinson Homestead
More Emily Dickinson Info
Poems and Biography of Emily Dickinson
Information on Emily Dickinson from online-literature.com!
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