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Updated: June 18, 2025
When I tole her jes' how to do it, ash-cakes, griddle-cakes, batter-cake, every kin' of cake, she was so mighty obligated that she took a little bit of a pie, made of meat, out of the bag what she'd brought along to eat on the way home, not feelin' hungry at lunch time, an' give it to me.
"I was just wondering if you had forgotten how to make those good ash-cakes." "Now, jes' listen to de chile, makin' game o' his ole Mammy!" she exclaimed. "Livin' so high wid all dem hifalutin' kings an' queens an' sech, an' den comin' back here an' makin' ten' he wouldn' 'spise Mammy's ash-cakes!" "I'm in dead earnest, Mammy. Indeed, indeed and double deed, I am.
Aunt Matilda was indeed a most wonderful cook and a cook, too, who liked to have a boy and a girl by her while she was at work; and who would tell them stories as queer old stories as ever were told while the things were cooking. The stories were really the cause of the ash-cakes and fish sometimes being forgotten. And it is no wonder that these children were troubled in their minds.
"Some time after dark a light was seen a short distance ahead, and there was a 'sound of revelry. On approaching, the light was seen to proceed from a large fire, built on the floor of an old and dilapidated outhouse, and surrounded by a ragged, hungry, singing, and jolly crowd of paroled prisoners of the Army of Northern Virginia, who had gotten possession of a quantity of cornmeal and were waiting for the ash-cakes then in the ashes.
That's lofty business, Mrs. Robinson, an' I expect you're afther gittin' rich. Is it the gilt-edged butter you give him for his ash-cakes?" "A pusson that's pious," said Phoebe, "don't want to get rich onter a minister of the gospel " "Which would be wearin' on their hopes if they did," interrupted Molly.
Her old log cabin was their favorite resort, and many a fine time they had there. When they caught some fish, or Harry shot a bird or two, or when they could get some sweet potatoes or apples to roast, and some corn-meal for ash-cakes, they would take their provisions to Aunt Matilda and she would cook them.
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