Juneteenth Hoecakes Recipe: 19 June:
1 Cup of cornmeal. Yea, That's all you get. 1/2 teaspoon of salt. That's it. You cannot add more to taste. Slaves may not have had this item.
Can add a 1 tablespoon of Florida cane sugar. Slaves may not have had this either. Florida Style.
Mix together dry.
Add 2 cups of water. Mix well. The water used may have been from a shallow well or from some creek. For health reasons please use clean safe drinking water only.
Let rest 10 minutes. Slaves may not have done that or let it sit while heating the grease.
Bacon fat in skillet. Bacon fat or other grease would have been recovered from the masters house. Most likely to be dumped or fed to the hogs.
Spoon in 4 inch wide cakes to be cooked like small pancakes or cover whole pan evenly. Flip until light golden brown on both sides. If the slaves had honey. Honey may have been poured on the Hoecakes in limited quantities. For taste and not saturation. Poor white families also cooked Hoecakes as well in the south. I have heard that poor whites learned from the former slaves on how to cook Hoecakes. That tradition carries on to today. Although, the details were most likely lost as to the origins. Cook these with nothing else to eat and drink with only water. This is a meal for your household.
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Note: Heat skillet over a wood fire only. Not electric, not gas, not charcoal. But for safety reasons an outdoor grill is acceptable so as long as you continually guard the fire and have a fire extinguisher on hand.
Do not use any modern accessories. Find a big rock that your skillet can sit on. So how do you flip the hoecake without any modern tools? Figure it out. Have fun while you think about the life of a slave or a poor white in the south.
Warning: Grease fire should be covered to smother out the fire with a lid. Do not use water on any grease fire.
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Added on 16 June 2020:
Added on 16 June 2020:
NOTE: Yes you can use modern accessories and yes you can double or triple the recipe. The point of the limitations is to express what slaves and poor folks had. Even white poor folks.
NOTE: Bacon Grease substitution. You can use any available oil.
Bacon Grease NOTE: If you do not have any bacon grease. Then make some bacon. Some people like thin sliced and others like thick. The thick sliced bacon seems easier to cook and work with.
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You need to know and this may sound awful. There were a lot of animalistic things which occur with American black slaves. A lot of abuses, tortures and killings. The slaves worked the farms and as such. You have to properly feed slaves in order for them to be more productive. A slave which is starving or severely mistreated is not going to be as productive as a slave which is fed better.
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My Personal Note: All slaves are human beings. It does not matter who they are or where they are from. It is a scientific fact that all human beings are more than 99.9% the same genetically speaking. Which means that less than .1% of the remaining human genetic code is where we see all of the physical differences in each other.
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Added on 18 June 2020: Written 29 Aug 2017 as a Quora answer:
Humanity is both very far and very close to eliminating racism in the whole world. The biggest problem is that no one in any kind of position of authority wants to reveal the truth or to teach the truth in regards to the races of humanity. Virtually everyone agrees that racism is wrong but no one can say why or how it is wrong. Even those people with advanced degrees and many hundreds of thousands of viewers, readers or listeners. Refuse to put forth the evidence. More than thirty years ago. The truth was known through DNA profiling. Then later refined with the completion of The Human Genome Project. Which basically states that all of humanity is one race, one species and one family.Your skin is just an organ of your whole body. Just like your liver, kidney and spleen. You do not identify another person of another race because of the efficiency of their liver. I cannot tolerate alcohol. While some people drink liquor like they were fish. So does that mean they are of a different race than me?
"The person who only believes what they are told and has no need to ever consider seeking the truth. Is evidence of the total enslavement of their mind".
C.J.MacKechnie
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Respectfully questioning authority is mandatory for each person. By doing so, you are assured that you are not deceived. In today's modern age, a person or every person should be allowed develop the skills necessary to search for any information at its source of origination. When this can be accomplished, a new civilized world can be established based on truth and not apparent truths which turn out to be out-right lies with evil intentions such as hate, war, murder, fear, anger, rage, distrust and so on.
In the current atmosphere of race relations, no one anywhere on this planet wants to know the truth or even seek the truth. Organizations that define words contribute to the lie and ongoing deceptions. Can we prove that the definition of the races of humanity are false by scientific standards? Yes, from 1985 human DNA profiling and again in 2000 with the Human Genome Project. The science is absolute and clear. There is only one singular race of human beings on this planet and it is human, not black, white, red or yellow species of people.
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One lie proven wrong. Races!
A partial quote from then-president of the United States of America, Bill Clinton:
"The third horizon that lies before us is one that science cannot approach alone. It is the horizon that represents the ethical, moral and spiritual dimension of the power we now possess. We must not shrink from exploring that far frontier of science. But as we consider how to use new discovery, we must also not retreat from our oldest and most cherished human values. We must ensure that new genome science and its benefits will be directed toward making life better for all citizens of the world, never just a privileged few.
As we unlock the secrets of the human genome, we must work simultaneously to ensure that new discoveries never pry open the doors of privacy. And we must guarantee that genetic information cannot be used to stigmatize or discriminate against any individual or group.
Increasing knowledge of the human genome must never change the basic belief on which our ethics, our government, our society are founded. All of us are created equal, entitled to equal treatment under the law. After all, I believe one of the great truths to emerge from this triumphant expedition inside the human genome is that in genetic terms, all human beings, regardless of race,
are more than 99.9 percent the same."
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If you want to stop racism, you have to begin with the evidence to counter the wrong thinking of the world. You have to cause organizations like Dictionary.com - The world’s favorite online dictionary! to change the definition based on thirty-year-old and again on 16-year-old scientific proofs. You have to convince people that this is a world problem and not the racial monopoly of the USA.
I have listened and heard many shows from many different sources and all of them are the same including the radio show Equipped with Chris Brooks. Every show host only wants to know opinions and feelings. No one wants to explore any evidence or to seek any kind of factual truths. Everyone is enslaved by their own way of wrongful thinking. Everyone wants to continue to believe that this lie is an absolute truth which will not or cannot change. This is why people like Chris Brooks have enslaved mind in regard to the races of humanity. I'm only picking on Mr. Brooks because I value what he does and says. I'm much more than an occasional listener. I have not mentioned any other hosts or people because they simply are unimportant to me since I realized they offered zero real answers or solutions.
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Please study how DNA profiling is used in international courts of law. Why do they only use a small portion of the DNA panel?
Please study the human skin, how the skin is the largest organ of the body. Study how there are primary functions and secondary functions. If you lose a primary function you can die. If you lose a secondary function you will merely be uncomfortable and a possible social outcast. So since I cannot drink alcohol very well because of genetic inefficiencies of my liver organ, why am I not a different race of person from those who can drink alcohol very easily and in huge quantities? Isn't that similar to differences between a lightly pigmented person and a darker pigmented person?
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What happened at the tower of Babel? The beginning of racism or the belief in the division of the human species. In modern terms, this where God deleted the one common language of humanity and downloaded up to 77 other basic languages into up to 77 different groups of people. People grew into an us-versus-them mentality.
We are all from one blood line, Noah and his sons - a total of 8 adults.
To go back even further from only one male and one female.
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If humanity all the way back to Adam and Eve became a separate race of human beings on each region of this one planet, then the genetic differences would be much greater than LESS THAN .1%. Because within that less than .1% is where all of your unique identity resides. This does not include your cultural, social and educational upbringings, or even the lack of cultural, social and educational upbringings. The math is huge and very exact.
And we have not even begun to talk about the genetic markers of sin which can reside in specific places along the DNA structure, which can be passed along to our offspring. So what did Jesus know about this when he said all you have to do is think sin and it is already done?
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Added on 27 July 2016:
Here is a fact which cannot be argued, but it can be denied and rejected. All of your DNA and my DNA is more than 99.9% identical. Can you fathom that? Here is a comparison in regard to Ethnos.
Read this and understand.
ethnos -people of the same race or nationality who share a distinctive culture.
This is the definition - people of the same nationality who share a distinctive culture. So if a person alters either his nationality or culture, that person changes his racial distinction as defined. How about that for an error with zero scientific evidence?
The traditions of man is a basis for race.
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Here is another.
Race, as a social construct, is a group of people who share similar and distinct physical characteristics. Yes, it also includes wealth or the lack of wealth. It also includes intelligence or the lack of intelligence.
Are you getting this? Race is a social construct. What are the distinct physical characteristics? Ears, legs, liver, spleen, hair?
I am pointing you in a direction. That direction is toward scientific fact and away from any human social constructs. Be sure you continue reading to discover that the first use of race was with those who spoke a single common language. Can you start thinking about the Tower of Babel as the beginning source for racism and the division of humanity via language?
Since race is a social construct. It can be assumed that a person who was poor and then is rich changes their race. Likewise, a person who was rich and is now poor also changes his race.
So if a person knows many languages are they multi-racial?
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Here is a good comparison:
A person bought four exact Dell computers with no operating systems installed.
On Dell computer #1, which is to be the personal computer, this person installed Windows 10, some games and other fun software.
On Dell computer #2, which is to be the work computer, this person installed Windows 7, some work specific software, and professional Office software.
On Dell computer #3, which is to be the industrial use computer, this person installed an industrial version of Linux operating system along with specific controls software.
On Dell computer #4, which is to be a French language specific computer, programs were installed that were mostly for the streaming of all French-language content.
I know you're smart and you know where I'm going with this. The more than 99.9% of all of our DNA can be represented by the physical Dell computer machines. The less than .1% is all tied in the software. I would consider this a lose comparison. Still the point is made.
Each of the above computers are the same. Except for the operating systems and purpose of use. This is where we can get our lazy and crazy people, Bruce Lee people, Albert Einstein people, Michael Jordan people and so on and so forth.
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28 Sept 2016: Before Racist: (Unedited): 23 Sept 2016:
"Before any person can become a racist he must first believe in the separation and divisions of the human species."
C.J.MacKechnie
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Added on 13 Feb 2021: Just remembering my adopted family today. I do admire them very much. My adopted Uncles birthday is in a another day. He has been very ill. I remember visiting and eating Crapie fish as well as having hoe cakes. My Florida Style hoe cakes is on the skillet right now in bacon grease.
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To avert all of the coming bad and sad prophecies. We each must decide to do the following everyday, every hour, every minute and every second.
To Love one another.To live in peace with everyone.To exist in harmony with all.To Cherish all life.To be obedient to the Laws of God.To become righteous and holy by the accepting eyes of God only.All without pride, ego, arrogance, supremacy or entitlements.
