A delightful way of beginning the morning for me - it sounds perfect to
me. Is there a hidden reference to Francis Ponge in the "cream sponges"?
He was a poet who wished to give les choses their due.
Talking of cake,Gerald Schwarz referred to Proust's madeleine recently
as " those little macaroon cookies triggering M. Proust into raptures".
Well I'm sure that madeleines are not macaroons, which are made with
almonds. They are more like pound cake, fairly tasteless except for the
sugar, which is why they are so good to dunk.
mj
Caleb Cluff wrote:
>Red laminex and zinc piping are not our 'chief concerns' here,
>here in this kitchen of flies and yellow curling flypaper.
>The dead are currants dotted in panettone.
>
>A Methodist Ladies Cookbook on the bench
>relates the dangers of a sadness
>at the heart of the cake.
>
>Who fails a cake?
>Who leaves it, sighing, alone in a room at night?
>Can the love of a cake be spurned?
>
>In a corner of the room hums the deep
>deep freeze. Cream sponges sleep within,
>dreaming of spongy affairs, iced with comfort.
>
>Majorca, Vic.
>21-22/03/07
>
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