Jenna, a waitress in an abusive marriage who just learned she's pregnant, sings about how baking offers her hope and escape. Her mother survived a similar marriage through the same skill. The song uses baking as metaphor for transforming pain into something sweet and finding faith in survival.
a waitress in an abusive relationship with her husband Earl. In the song "What Baking Can Do," Jenna has just found out that she is pregnant with her husband's baby and realizes she is now tied to her loveless marriage. Jenna finds an escape in baking, which she learned from her mother, who was also trapped in a loveless, abusive marriage.
She sings about having hope and what maybe baking will get her through. We now present Jenna Murdock singing "What Baking Can Do." Make it work, make it easy, make it clever, craft it into pieces. Make it sweet, crimp the edges, or make it sour and serve with lemon wedges. Even thought can be delicious, and it washes off all the dirty dishes when it's done. I can smile, it's on someone else's plate for a while. I'll place it on display, and then I'll slice it, serve my worries away. Face this, I can twist it into sugar butter cut pieces. Never mind what's on wonders that have done before. How big is faith, Lord, to help make it through? I believe in you. Mama, it's amazing what faith can do. Make it up and surprise them. Tell them all my secrets but disguise them. So make it dance on the tongues of the very people who got their secrets wrong. Make it soon. Make it better. No better than it lasts forever. I'll make it slow. So if it's even this, even now, even as the walls come tumbling down, even as we face our remembering now, every time and every day we divorce the Lord now, Let's see the next amazing thing that he does now.
