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Updated: May 24, 2025
My night-round of visits to the sick having been completed, I was soon seated by my own fireside, watching the operation of making and baking a corn hoecake, which, with some smoked beef of my own preparation and a cup of corn-coffee, made my supper on this Christmas eve. It was so bitterly cold that I did not undress; but, wrapping a blanket around me, lay down on my bunk.
"With bread and gunpowder one may go anywhere," said Napoleon, but with limited hoecake and no gunpowder, even Governor Wise would wisely retreat. That may be, and yet the facts on which it was based remain. Feeling is a thing which comes and goes. The value to the South of Federal care, Federal offices, Federal mail facilities, and the like, is not lessened.
These, according to Heckewelder, were important items of the Indian food supply. To the Indian we are indebted for ash-cake, hoecake, succotash, samp, hominy and many other productions made from the Indian maize. The Miamis of the Wabash, with a favorable climate and a superior soil, produced a famous corn with a finer skin and "a meal much whiter" than that raised by other tribes.
Seated at the kitchen table, the large-hearted woman bustling about and talking away, the ravenous tramps attacked a pile of old Virginia hoecake and corn-dodger, a frying-pan with an inch of gravy and slices of bacon, streak of lean and streak of fat, very numerous. To finish as much rich buttermilk as the drinkers could contain.
Marse Whately and he men all done gone till eb'nin'." "Well, there's no need of further words. See what you can do about getting horses and a good start. I will explain on the way. Hoot like an owl when the coast is clear and you are ready." A few moments later Chunk emerged from the cabin, with careless mien, eating a pone of hoecake.
They could provide forlorn pullets, certainly from the same farmyard with the lean kine of Egypt, and to these they could add, what was much better left unadded, a villainous species of unleavened bread, a sort of hoecake, not at all improved precisely like the run of travelers by leaving home and wandering in the Orient. And this was about all they could provide.
Adding the roll scale had cooled the charge, and it was thick like hoecake batter. I now thoroughly mixed it with a rabble which is like a long iron hoe. "Snake bake a hoecake, And lef' a frog to mind it; Frog went away, an' De lizard come and find it." Any lizard attracted by my hoecake would have to be a salamander that fire-proof creature that is supposed to live in flames.
De nex' day he come walkin' down to de slabe-pen, a-purtendin' to be a planter, and a-axin' de price ob de niggers. When dey tole him I was Vina's husband, he says, 'Why, he's too ole to be anybody's husband: I don't believe he's got a toof in his head. 'Yes I has, massa, says I: 'I'se got t'ree left, and can chaw hoecake powerful, but I don't crack no pecans in my mouf.
As soon as she woke up in the morning it was: "Oh, Li'l' Hannibal, fetch a pine knot and light the kitchen fire." "Oh, Li'l' Hannibal, fetch the tea-kettle to the well and get some water for the tea." "Oh, Li'l' Hannibal, mix a li'l' hoecake for your gran'daddy's brea'fus'." "Oh, Li'l' Hannibal, take the bunch of turkeys' feathers and dust the hearth."
From him we derived a knowledge of the values and attractions of the succulent clam, and he didn't cook a clam so that it tasted like O'Somebody's Heels of New Rubber either. From the Indian we got the original idea of the shore dinner and the barbecue, the planked shad and the hoecake. By following in his footsteps we learned about succotash and hominy.
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