Brontë Christmas sweets

We know for a fact that Brontëiteness tends to expand into all sorts of different aspects of your life and, well, we are here to help. If your friends know about your obsession and you delight in surprising them, we suggest you present them with a good Brontë iced cake this season.

This Luxury Iced Christmas Fruit Cakes from the Bronte Collection who have been baking quality products for 125 years. This is a fine fruit cake of the traditional recipe, round in shape, with hand-finished Almond marzipan and Royal Icing.

But if you think that is not quite enough for your friends, you can always amuse them by serving the cake at the same time you recite James Nash's September's poem of the month (included in his 1999 book Deadly Sensitive)

Imagine being Emily Bronte
nipping out for a pint of milk
or some fags
and having to dodge the coaches
and all those shops
selling tins of biscuits
with your name on them.

Although Mr. Nash was probably thinking of the Patterson Arran Brontë brand of products:

In the 19 60's a company calling itself Bronte cakes established itself making cakes in Haworth Yorkshire .
I am anticipating that most of you know that Haworth is the village where the Bronte sisters lived. The 3 Bronte sisters all wrote books Jane Eyre by Charlotte, Wuthering Heights by Emily and The tenant of wild fell hall by Ann.
The company in Howarth (sic) sold out to a Livingston firm Patterson Arran, who have since expanded the range of products with the Bronte name calling its products café Bronte new products oat biscuits and muffins produced. (mumsymary on ciao.co.uk)

Now your friends will really understand what you mean when you say confidently how much you like those Brontës.

Categories: Poetry, Weirdo