Black History Month Essays

Two essays by Frederick Douglass in which he tells of his escape from the LLoyd Plantation in Talbot County, Maryland, and gives his views on Reconstruction when he returned for a visit to the Eastern Shore following the Civil War.
 Heritage / Historical / Black History / Slavery / Biography

     EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION
                     SNACKIN’ CAKE

1/2 cup butter
1 cup sugar
2 eggs
2/3 cup milk 
2 1/2 cups flour (sifted)
3 teaspoons baking powder
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon vanilla extract 


Cream butter, add sugar gradually, blend well. Beat eggs well and add to butter and sugar mixture. Add milk to butter mixture a little at a time. 

Mix sifted flour, salt, and baking powder, a little at a time, into the mixed wet ingredients. 

Finally, add vanilla. Use two 9" x 12" buttered cake pans. Bake for 30 minutes at 375 degrees. 

Traditional snacking cake says to sprinkle sugar on top of layers before baking, then slice into triangles and eat.  

Non-traditionalists, can use your favorite frosting frosting and stack the layers for a more usual layer cake.