Literary Eats: Emily Dickinson's Gingerbread, Ernest Hemingway's Picadillo, Eudora Welty's Onion Pie and 400+ Other Recipes from American Authors Past and Present

229 Pages·2014·4.06 MB·English

by  Gary Scharnhorst

Literary Eats

Literary Eats
Emily Dickinson’s Gingerbread,
Ernest Hemingway’s Picadillo,
Eudora Welty’s Onion Pie and
400+ Other Recipes from American
Authors Past and Present
G S
ARY CHARNHORST
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Literary eats : Emily Dickinson’s gingerbread, Ernest Hemingway’s
picadillo, Eudora Welty’s onion pie, and 400+ other recipes from
American authors past and present / Gary Scharnhorst.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Acknowledgments
Unpublished Brownie recipe by Elizabeth Bishop. Copyright 2013 by the Alice H.
Methfessel Trust. Printed by permission of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, LLC, on behalf of
the Elizabeth Bishop Estate. Printed from manuscript in the Elizabeth Bishop Papers at
Vassar College, folder 112.13, courtesy of Archives and Special Collections Library, Vassar
College.
“Café Ellison Diabolique” by Harlan Ellison(r). Copyight 1973, 1991by Harlan Ellison.
Renewed, 2001, by the Kilimanjaro Corporation. Reprinted by arrangement with, and per-
mission of, the Author and the Author’s agent, Richard Curtis Associates, Inc., New York.
All rights reserved. Harlan Ellison is a registered trademark of the Kilimanjaro Corpora-
tion.
“Case of the Caretaker’s Cat Cocktail” reprinted by permission of the Erle Stanley
Gardner Trust.
Recipes for Green Chile Sauce, Huevos Rancheros, and Mexican Summer Soup
from The Aficionado’s Southwestern Cookingby Ronald Johnson are copyright 1968 by the
Literary Estate of Ronald Johnson and reprinted with permission.
“Crab Nebula” and “Primitive Chocolate Mousse copyright 1973, 2001 by Ursula
K. Le Guin; first appeared in Cooking Out of This World; reprinted by permission of the
author and the author’s agents, the Virginia Kidd Agency, Inc. “Liriv Metadi or Valley Suc-
cotash” copyright 1985 by Ursula K. Le Guin; first appeared in Always Coming Home;
reprinted by permission of the author and the author’s agents, the Virginia Kidd Agency,
Inc.
Recipes for “Veal Cutlets with Tomato Sauce” and “Vegetable Soup” by Fanny Longfel-
low reprinted with permission from Early American Cooking: Recipes from America’s Historic
Sitesby Evelyn Beilenson, published in 1985 by Peter Pauper Press, Inc., White Plains, New
York, U.S.A. Used by permission. www.peterpauper.com.
Eggs à la Nabocoque by Vladimir Nabokov. Copyright 1972 by Vladimir Nabokov,
courtesy of the Vladimir Nabokov Archive at the Berg Collection, New York Public Library.
Used by permission of the Wylie Agency, LLC.
Recipes for Bread Pudding, Chicken Loaf, Corn and Cheese Fondue, Jello Salad,
Swedish Meatballs by Lorine Niedecker reprinted with permission of the Hoard Historical
Museum, Ft. Atkinson, Wisconsin (item number 002.3.8).
All Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings recipes from Cross Creek Cookery, copyright 1942 by
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, copyright renewed © 1970 by Norton Baskin. Used by permission
of Brandt and Hochman Literary Agents, Inc. All rights reserved.
Recipe for “Easy Peach Cobbler” from Dori Sanders’ Country Cookingby Dori Sanders.
Copyright 1995 by Dori Sanders. Reprinted by permission of Algonquin Books of Chapel
Hill. All rights reserved.
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viii Acknowledgments
“Gormeh Salzee” reprinted by permission of the Estate of William Stafford.
Recipe for Grits by Tennessee Williams. Copyright 1981, 2012 by the University of the
South. Reprinted by permission of Georges Borchardt, Inc., on behalf of the Tennessee
Williams Estate. All rights reserved.
Conrad Aiken’s poem used by permission of Brandt and Hochman Literary Agents,
Inc. All rights reserved.
“How to Make Rhubarb Wine” from Sure Signs: New and Selected Poems, by Ted Kooser,
copyright 1980. Reprinted by permission of the University of Pittsburgh Press.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments vii
Preface 1
THE RECIPES
Conrad Aiken 5 • Scrapple
Bronson and Louisa May Alcott 5 • Berry Pudding Without Eggs • Biscuit
Without Milk • Cake Without Eggs • Ginger Snaps • Graham Cake • Tomato
Catsup
Horatio Alger, Jr. 6 • Egg Plant Pilau • Graham Muffins
David Amram 7 • Omelette
Rudolfo Anaya 7 • Sardinas de Lata (Sardines from the Can)
Sherwood Anderson 9 • Baked Ham
Anonymous 9 • Boston Brown Bread • Breakfast Dish • Cheese Relish •
Chowder,an Old Recipe • Colonial Punch • Corn Bread • Corn Pone • Eve’s
Pudding • Oatmeal Pudding • Old Virginia Mince Pie • Oyster Cocktail •
Plum Pudding • Plum Pudding • Stewed Duck and Peas
Susan B. Anthony 16 • Apple Tapioca Pudding
Catharine Beecher 17 • Cheapest Beef • Coffee • Fish Skin for Coffee •
French Pot au Feu • Fricassee Chickens • Mush or Hasty Pudding • Shoulder of
Lamb • Spanish Olla- Podrida • Succotash • Tomato Catsup
Henry Ward Beecher 20 • Barbeque • Biscuits • Reed- Birds • Succotash, or
Corn and Beans • Tomatoes • Turtle Bean Soup
Elizabeth Bishop 22 • Brownies
Lillie Devereux Blake 23 • Last Century Blackberry Pudding • Tropic Delicacy
Edwin Booth—Breakfast at Delmonico’s 23 • Terrine de fois gras (Terrine
entière de foies- gras)
Kay Boyle 24 • Ratatouille Rowayton
Oliver Bell Bunce 25 • Dandelion Wine • Orange Loaf Cake • Robert E. Lee
Cake
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