Hasty pudding, this and other oatmeal recipes below
After my first year in the doctoral program in history at Syracuse University (1992-1993) I moved off campus and lived with my older cousin Katie Green who I have talked about in other post http://frederickdouglassopie.blogspot.com/search?q=cousin+katie. I moved off campus to save money. I had applied for and received a Teaching Fellowship in the Department of African American Studies. The fellowship paid my tuition and provided a small stipend that I used to pay my rent, keep my 84 Honda prelude on the road, purchase books, and buy groceries. During interviews journalist often ask me what is soul food to which I respond, soul food is a fabulous-tasting dish made from simple inexpensive ingredients. Soul food is nitty-gritty food that tasted good and helped African Americans survive during difficult times. In addition I argue soul is putting a premium on suffering, endurance, and surviving with dignity. I grew up middle class but from 1993 to 2000 I lived out the definitions of soul that talk about in my work. I had just turned thirty and pride get me from calling home and asking for help putting food on my table. Instead I used every strategy I could to eat and survive with dignity which I will share over the next couple of days. The issue with me in graduate school was that I did not have a lot of time to cook, money to buy allot of food, and I wanted to eat healthy. One of the things I did was learn how cook oatmeal in a variety of ways. Here are some recipes below. I would love to hear other stories and recipes on how you or your family put food on the table during hard times.
Brown Betty recipes and more: http://frederickdouglassopie.blogspot.com/search?q=brown+betty
Hasty pudding: http://frederickdouglassopie.blogspot.com/2010/04/molasses-and-social-classes.html
Oatmeal raisin cookies: http://simplyrecipes.com/recipes/oatmeal_raisin_cookies/
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