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Coffee cake or coffeecake is a sweet bread common in the United States, so called because it is typically served with coffee. [1] [2] Leavenings can include yeast, baking soda, or baking powder. The modern dish typically contains no coffee. Outside the US, the term is generally understood to mean a cake flavored with coffee.
Coffee cake can refer to: Coffee cake (American) , a sweet bread typically served with coffee but not typically made with coffee as an ingredient or flavoring Coffee-flavored cake, such as coffee and walnut cake
There is a passing mention of "Sally Lunn and saffron cake" in a 1776 poem about Dublin by the Irish poet William Preston. [7] The first recorded mention of the bun in Somerset is as part of a detox regime in Philip Thicknesse 's 1780 guidebook to taking the waters at Bath .
Twinkies, an American snack cake generally considered to be "junk food", have a shelf life of around 25 days, despite the common claim (usually facetious) that they remain edible for decades. [27] The official shelf life is 45 days. Twinkies normally remain on a store shelf for 7 to 10 days. [28]
Samuel Johnson (18 September [O.S. 7 September] 1709 – 13 December 1784), often called Dr Johnson, was an English writer who made lasting contributions as a poet, playwright, essayist, moralist, literary critic, sermonist, biographer, editor, and lexicographer.
In the Southeastern United States, a teacake is a traditional dense large cookie, made with sugar, butter, eggs, flour, milk, and flavoring. [5] They are particularly associated with the African-American community and were originally developed as an analog of the pastries served to guests by white women when entertaining.
1640 – The publisher John Benson publishes an anthology of poems; some are by Shakespeare, and about 30 are not, but all are ascribed to Shakespeare. It is titled "Poems: Written by Wil. Shakespeare Gent". Benson is even more wildly piratical than Jaggard. Benson draws on The Passionate Pilgrim and other sources, including Shakespeare's ...
This poem marks the introduction into an English context of the classical pastoral, a mode of poetry that assumes an aristocratic audience with a certain kind of attitude to the land and peasants. The explorations of love found in the sonnets of William Shakespeare and the poetry of Walter Raleigh and others also implies a courtly audience.