Once again, Houghton will celebrate Emily Dickinson’s birthday with a cake baked according to her own handwritten recipe found in our collections. Modern Books and Manuscripts Assistant Johnna Purchase talks about her experience making it—you can try it for yourself on December 8th. https://sites.harvard.edu/houghtonmodern/2023/11/17/baking-emily-dickinsons-black-cake/
It's great to see the manuscript for Dickinson's #cake#recipe, which looks so much like the manuscripts for her #poems.
And in case you're wondering, I once had lunch with the late #poet Richard Eberhart who recounted talking to an elderly man from Amherst who recounted that when he was a tyke Dickinson would bake him #cookies and lower them to him through her upstairs window.
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