“My” Signature Sorghum Molasses Syrup Cookbook: Highlighting “My” Hometown’s Black History -1849 -Present Time! Celebrating

By Sharon Kaye Hunt

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• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Jun 5, 2019
• ISBN: 9781796037456

Sharon Kaye Hunt

Sharon Hunt, born in Nobletown and is a 1965 graduate of Wewoka High School. She graduated with B.S. and M.S Degrees from Oklahoma State University. She did further study at Kansas State University. Ms. Hunt is a retired registered dietitian and worked as a dietitian at St. Luke’s and Texas Children’s Hospitals in Houston, Texas. Ms. Hunt taught food and nutrition for more than forty years at Langston University and Fort Valley State University, Fort Valley, Georgia. While at Fort Valley, Ms. Hunt wrote a cookbook Bread from Heaven and appeared on QVC Home Shopping Network three times. Ms. Hunt wrote the original recipe for the World Largest Peach Cobbler for Peach County, Georgia. Ms. Hunt co-founded the undergraduate chapter of Delta Sigma Theta at Oklahoma State University in Stillwater, Oklahoma and served as the charter president of the Warner Robins Alumnae Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority in Warner Robins, Georgia. Currently, Ms. Hunt is retired from teaching and has begun a new career in African-American History. She has self-published 35 books on different aspects of history. She mainly writes about Oklahoma and Georgia. She hopes to be on the move to write 11th grade Black history books and to include more history about the slaves in eleventh grade history in the United States. Ms. Hunt promoted a Community Pride Sign to be placed in her hometown of Wewoka, Okla. On the African leader -Lawyer James Coody Johnson who assisted slaves and Native Americans. To get an understanding of slaves’ survival food, Ms. Hunt submitted a proposal to the Oklahoma Legislature to vote in the “Cornmeal-hoecake Bread” as Oklahoma’s official bread. Ms. Hunt is writing a series of books to show how the slaves may have celebrated Thanksgiving and Christmas Dinners during their harsh times.The former slaves gave ideas about how they celebrated different holidays.

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MY Signature

Sorghum Molasses

Syrup Cookbook

Highlighting MY Hometown’s Black

History -1849 -Present Time! Celebrating

Sharon Kaye Hunt

Copyright © 2019 by Sharon Kaye Hunt.

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the copyright owner.

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CONTENTS

Foreword

Acknowledgement

Dedication

Disclaimer

Introduction

Chapter 1 Appetizers

MY Hometown’s Black History Highlights

Candy and Others

Peanut Brittle

Spicy Pecan Halves

Dips

MY Hometown’s Black History Highlights

Chapter 2 Beverages

MY Hometown’s Black History Highlights

John Horse’s Early Childhood

Eggnog

MY Hometown’s Black History Highlights

John’s Teenage Years

Chapter 3 Chilis, Soups and Stews

Chilis

MY Hometown’s Black History Highlights

Soups

MY Hometown’s Black History Highlights

Stews

MY Black History Hometown Highlights

Chapter 4 Entrees

Beef

MY Hometown Black History Highlights:

Wewoka and Slavery

Pork

MY Hometown’s Black History Highlights:

Goat

MY Hometown’s Black History Highlights:

Slave Narratives

Chicken

"MY’ Hometown’s Black History Highlights

Legumes

MY Hometown’s Black History Highlights:

Robert Johnson an interpreter for the Seminoles and Creek Indians

Chapter 5 Starches and Garden Vegetables

Country Mashed Potatoes

Macaroni and Cheese Pie

White Potato Casserole

Red Beans and Rice

Savannah Red Rice

MY Hometown Black History Highlights

History of Seminole Freedmen

Sunday Best Sweet Potatoes

MY Hometown’s Black History Highlights:

Chapter 6 Salads and Slaws

Vegetable

Fruit Salad

Meat

Slaw

MY Hometown’s Black History Highlights:

Wewoka and Mexico Connections

Chapter 7 Breads

Pan Breads

Muffins

Loaf Bread

MY Hometown Black History Highlights:

Chapter 8 Desserts

Cakes

MY Hometown’s Black History Highlights"

Wewoka’s Black Bourgeois

Pies

MY Hometown’s Black History Highlights:

Wewoka’s Black Professionals

Baked Fruits

Cookies

MY Hometown’s Black History Highlights:

Wewoka’s Black Doctors and Dentists

MY Hometown’s Black History Highlights:

Cobblers

Fried Fruit Pies

MY Hometown’s Black History Highlights:

Wewoka’s Natural Doctors

Puddings

MY Hometown’s Black History Highlights

Wewoka Black Oil and Property Owners

Chapter 9 Food Preservation

Butters

Jams

Syrups

MY Hometown’s Black History Highlights:

1866-1966

Vegetable Preservation

MY Hometown’s Black History Highlights

Chapter 10 Wines and Medicines

Post Oak Grape Wine

Wild Peach Chock

MY Hometown’s Black History Highlights:

Seminole Freedmen Lost Fortunes

Chapter 11 Wild Game Barbeque

Wild Boar or Pig Barbecue

Barbecue Wild Rabbit

Barbecue Wild Raccoon

Barbecue Wild Squirrel

Barbecued Wild Turkey

Barbeque Wild Venison or Deer

MY Hometown’s Black History Highlights:

Wewoka people always admired Black Inventors.

Chapter 12 Fruit Preservation

Jams

Butters

Syrups

Wines

MY Hometown’s Black History Highlights

MY Hometown’ Black History Highlights:

Chapter 13 Vegetable Preservation

Pickles

Chapter 14 Medicinal of Seminole Freedmen

References

MY

Signature

Sorghum Molasses Syrup

Cookbook

Highlighting

MY Hometown’s Black History -1849 -Present Time!

Celebrating

Wewoka, Oklahoma 74884

Sharon Kaye Hunt

FOREWORD

The main purpose of MY Signature Molasses Syrup Cookbook is to highlight the history of the use of molasses syrup use in the African-Americans’ homes in Wewoka and the history of African-Americans in Wewoka, Oklahoma. The author has first hand experiences because she was born near Wewoka, Oklahoma and attended school in Nobletown, Johnson Grove and Wewoka. For many years,

The author participated in molasses syrup production and prepared food products using molasses syrup.

Molasses syrup production was an African-American cultural affair in the author’s community. There was syrup maker and a main place where the molasses syrup was made. All of the families represented Generations from fourteen states of emancipated slaves.

For example, planting, cultivating and harvesting cane and making the syrup was a cultural affair made into telling the children about Black History and how they overcame the hardships of life. The author and others learned from the special syrup maker who was from Louisiana and the people who assisted in making the food products. The person who owned the syrup mill was from Georgia. People brought their stripped cane to the syrup mill to go through the process from juice to syrup.

At one time, the author’s father provided the power to grind the juice from the cane stalks by using mules and later on a tractor. After the juice was extracted from the cane, the juice was cooked in a special pan that had different sections. The pan was part of a syrup mill where wood was used as the heat source.

The pan was divided into about five sections because the juice had to be cooked through many phases before the desired product was produced. After the processed was completed, the molasses eas placed in jars and cans.

The molasses syrup production was a big affair, people made syrup, cooked and shared experiences. The author heard talk from many people who were at that time older than the state of Oklahoma.

This was in the early 1950s. Oklahoma became a state in 1907. Some of the people making syrup were in aged up to 80s or 90s. Many of the people came to Oklahoma with the Native Americans or white Americans or came on their own.

The Wewoka African-Americans had churches, land, houses, horses, cows, cars and schools. Wewoka was full of sons and daughters of former slaves and Seminole Freedmen people who came from old Mexico, Texas, Georgia, Louisiana, Florida, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Alabama, and Texas. These people were representative of the people who helped to build America.

Mainly, the hope of this cookbook is to share some recipes and to provide a glimpse of how one black man-John Horse made a difference in the Seminole Native American and Seminole Freedmen lives.

John Horse, an African-American, found the area of Wewoka in 1849. The city was incorporated in 1866. Wewoka is fifty eight years older than the state of Oklahoma.

The idea that John Horse was trying to emancipated African-Americans before 1865

AMENDMENT XIII

Abolition of Slavery

Section 1. Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime where of the party shall have been duly converted shall exist within the United States, or any place subject in their "jurisdiction.

Section 2. Congress shall have power to enforced this article by appropriate legislation.

AMENDMENT XIV

Civil Rights

Section 1. All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction there of, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States, nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law, nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.

What is an example of the slaves and slavery ?

An Interview taken from a former Oklahoma Slave:

"Most of the time there was more than three hundred slaves on the plantation.

The oldest ones come right from Africa. My Grandmother was one of them. A savage in Africa-a slave in America. Mammy told it to me. Over there all the natives dressed naked and lived on fruits and nuts

Never see many white men.

One day a big ship stopped off the shore and the and the natives hid in the brush along the beach.

The ship men sent a letter boat to the shore and a scattered bright things and trinkets on the beach. The natives were curious. Grandmother said everybody made a search for them things soon as the boat left.

The trinkets were fewer than the peoples. Next day the white folks scattered some more. There was another scramble. The natives was feeling less scared, and the next day some of them walked up the gangplank to get things off the plank and off the deck.

The deck was covered with things like they’d found on the beach. Two-three hundred natives on the ship when they feel it move. They rush to the side but the plank was gone. Just dropped in the water when the ship moved away.

Folks on the beach started crying and shouting. The ones on the boat was wild with fear. Grandmother was one of them who got fooled, and she say the last thing seen of that place was the natives

Running up and down the beaches waving their arms and shouting like they was mad. The boat men come up from below where they had been hiding and drive the slaves down in the bottom and keep them quiet with whips and clubs.

The slaves was landed at Charleston. The town folks was mighty mad ’cause the blacks was driven through the streets without any clothes. And drove off the boat.

After the slaves was sold on the market. Most of the load was sold to the Brown plantation in Alabama.

Grandmother was one of the bunch.

The Browns taught them to work, made clothes for them."

Adam Young

Oklahoma Slave Narratives

The Spanish leaders who Florida called the free black who spoke the language Mvskoke called the free Blacks who spoke the language Cimarroms or free black people (Seminole).

Muskhogem-Seminole -Spanish Florida

The Seminoles were originally known as the Seminole included Hecete, Eufaula, Mikasuke, Horrewave, Tallahassee, Chiaha and Apaluchiola.

What did Wewoka and Florida have in common?

"From 1693n-1820’s, slaves escaped from the Carolinas, Georgia and Alabama to free Spanish Florida. Most of the people who came from Florida fugitives from the slave masters plantation.

The ex-slaves came from Florida to Wewoka with John Horse.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

The author acknowledges all of the research that has already been written and published about Wewoka. Also, the author wishes to highlight the protection given to the Seminole freedmen from their ex-slave owners. The Seminole Freedmen and Seminole Native Americans relied on each other for survival In hostile environments.

Also, the recipes included in the cookbook were selected from the popularity of food products made