1/2 lb Sugar 1/2 lb Butter 5 Eggs 1/8 pt Molasses 1/2 lb Flour 1/2 ts Baking soda 1/2 Nutmeg 1 t Clove 1 t Mace 1 t Cinnamon 1/8 pt Brandy 1 lb Raisins 2/3 lb Currants 2/3 lb Citron Cream sugar and butter. Add eggs and molasses. Beat well. Add flour, soda, and spices. Add brandy, then raisins, currants, and citron. Pour dough into 2 loaf pans [4 fruitcake pans*] lined with waxed paper and bake 3-4 hrs at 300F [60-70 min at 325F*]. Place shallow pan of hot water on bottom of oven, but remove for last hr of baking. [Test with toothpick.*] Let loaves cool before removing from pan. [*suggestions of a practiced experimenter (not myself!)] Posted By bhsiung@uhs.bsd.uchicago.edu (Dr. Bob) On rec.food.recipes or rec.food.cooking
How To make Emily Dickinson's Black Cake's Videos
Julie Harris' Belle of Amherst Black Cake
Julie Harris (James Dean's co-star in East of Eden [1955]) portrayed Emily Dickinson in the one-woman Broadway premiere of The Belle of Amherst (1976). The play opens with Emily reciting THIS recipe, ingredient by ingredient ...2 pounds of, butter, 2 pounds of flour, 2 pounds of sugar, 19 eggs.... Julie LOVED this cake and baked it many times for friends. This Civil War-era recipe was one of Dickinson's own. It's dark, fruity, boozy, and magnificently magical! Full recipe with lots of great stories and photos of Emily, Julie Harris, and James Dean at
Emily Dickinson's room, part 2 (windows)
Emily Dickinson's room, part 2 (windows), Izabela Maciejewska video installation 2009
Emily Dickinson's black cake (ARLies version)
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Emily Bakes A Cake (Dickinson)
Clip from the Apple TV+ hit series, 'Dickinson' S02E02 Emily preps to enter a baking contest in Amherst.
The SugaChef presents Emily Dickinson's Black Cake Recipe
A special virtual demonstration by Chef Padua Player of SugaChef Desserts. You can find the full recipe here:
On December 10, 2020, the O.B. Hardison Poetry Series hosts poet Dorianne Laux for this year's virtual Emily Dickinson Tribute reading reading entitled Tonight I am in Love. This event is co-sponsored with The Emily Dickinson Museum.
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Emily Dickinson's black cake
Houghton Library staff make poet Emily Dickinson's black cake, using her original manuscript recipe from the Houghton collections. Originally posted November 2015.
For more information on the Emily Dickinson collections at Harvard, visit library.harvard.edu/collections/emily-dickinson-collection