After all, anyone would get tired of eating the same ashcake and fat back, or herring, day after day.

Us have de big room where de slaves' meals all cook and de fireplace 'bout four foot 'cross and plenty ashes in de mornin' to make de ashcakes.

Us raked out hot ashes den and cooked good old ashcakes what was a heap better for us dan dis bread us buys from de stores now.

Lots of de cornbread was baked in pones on spiders, but ashcakes was a mighty go in dem days.

"I am so strong, you see, and besides I really like Aunt Floretta's ashcakes."