"Love's oven is warm": Emily Dickinson's Gingerbread Recipe

Could the Belle of Amherst have competed on the Great New England Bake Off?

The New England Mystic. The Belle of Amherst. And the Recluse Contessa?

Apart from being one of the most enigmatic, oracular, and captivating literary figures (as well as a charming, funny, and irreverent correspondent, as the letters prove), Emily Dickinson was a gifted baker who kept her neighbors and the local children well-stocked with goodies year-r…