Minggu, 11 April 2010

Molasses and Virginia Foodways



Apple molasses bread, recipe below



Born in 1915, Ella Baker remembered growing up in Cloverdale, Virginia. Every autumn, a one-legged African American man name Henry Lewis would go from house to house with a portable sugar cane grinder and a vat pulled on a horse drawn wagon. Those who cultivated sugar cane in the predominately African American farming hamlet of Cloverdale bartered with Lewis to have him turn their small sugar cane harvest into cans of molasses. For example, Lewis would produce nine cans of molasses and receive three of them as his processing fee. Subsistence farming within the state of Virginia was diverse. For example, Nettie Banks remembers that her family raised most of what they ate. But neither her family nor other residents in Middlesex County, Virginia cultivated enough sugar cane for the local consumption of molasses. Merchants in Middlesex County imported barrels of black strap molasses from as far away as Puerto Rico. Here is an apple molasses bread recipe.



Apple molasses bread recipe:

http://www.ichef.com/recipe.cfm/recipe/Apple%20Molasses%20Bread/itemid/407916/task/display/recipeid/117689/recipecategoryid/200


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