Best Baking Poems

For shame I write again
And indulge your memory 
Doting on you baselessly,
As though you’re a man
For shame, I have no remedy

Because as a child, I could never know
And as I am, you couldn't trust my word
That I know you and I know hardship
Because while there...

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Bread baking memories

up early to start the day
bread to make
Mom and I would start
adding to the bowl, mix and beat
then came the kneading
a rhythm was the key
1-2-3 turn and 1-2-3
as she taught me so many years ago
I can still hear her saying 1-2-3
the ball of...

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baking
the aroma outlasts
apple pie...

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In the mood to bake
So I glanced at my cookbook
To decide was hard
I chose a chocolate cake
That was easy to make....

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I look through Nana's broken window so many times
However, today it seems so different
 watching the blackbirds pecking at the pears
in the avocados trees 

 Nana harvested the best ripened avocados pears
The color of dark burgundy, and green 
All came from that old worn-out tree;

Every...

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elementary science 
we watched with wide eyes
baking soda and vinegar
a little red food coloring
emerge from a clay volcano
the foam erupting
moving fast
mixing these catalysts
consequence happened
our lives
like baking soda and vinegar
cause and effect
a mere chemistry experiment
some of us
not well-rounded chemists
make quite a muddle of it
not ever getting...

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Chocolate snowballs, apple crisp,
fudge and brownies too.
It's that time of year again
when only homemade will do.

Apple pecan stuffing,
a treat to go with pork.
The tenderloin so perfect
you can cut it with a fork.

There's a streusel coffee cake
I've been making most of my life.
Once again it's time...

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Yeast and flour rise
Kneading stretching sticky dough
Bake crisp and tender...

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So many irksome dilemmas in life can be cured by simple solutions.
All are not necessarily fixed by the latest technological revolutions.
To remedy the many vicissitudes that rain down upon myself,
I grab that handy box of lowly baking soda reposing upon the shelf!

This simple, innocent looking...

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There’s nothing like the smell of baking bread,
Made simply with just five ingredients.
A thickly buttered slice of crusty bread –
Unique, this sensory experience.
A timeless recipe, easily read –
Strong flour and water, sugar, fat and yeast :
For rich or poor a veritable feast....

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Doe Ray and silly me began to bake 
we dream't up a special taste brownie cake 
the plan was as easy as one two three 
it was time for some fun we did agree 

following a recipe seemed simple
only thing my mind went wildly cripple
glazing...

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In the kitchen, baking with mummy
Christmas goodies that so yummy
To wrap up for the tummy
For the snacking with my chummy

Later on we will party
Then eat the snacks that are so hardy
So I must be ready and not tardy
Or I may be outside in the yardie...

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My Pie I Am Baking

History in the making had been breath-taking
Got up each day and my bed was making
While waiting for what may come this way
Then to the Lord prayers started to say
He helped me with my pie I am baking.

Only Good Things

Each morning will...

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I love to reminisce about great Aunt Mattie.
Her home perched atop of an old barber shop; 
a barber pole below her apartment told my young eyes 
that we’d arrived at her place.

Her tiny space, smelled of a million confections and 
um, lilacs; house a plethora...

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[An Autumn kitchen a crucible of y e a s t and y e a r n i n g]

Samantha kneads dough with determined hands, she hears
    Hank's cry—"Vi vi an"—a phantom yeast in the air
      ...

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