25 Easy Homemade Desserts Black Mothers Made in the 1960s No One Makes Anymore

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25 Easy Homemade Desserts Black Mothers Made in the 1960s No One Makes Anymore

A flour-dusted rolling pin sat on a Formica counter in Detroit in 1964. It belonged to a woman named Earline Hicks. She was forty-three years old and she baked every Saturday for a family of nine. Saturday was the only day her kitchen smelled the way her mother's kitchen used to smell back in Greenville, Mississippi. She made pies from sweet potatoes she peeled by hand. She made cakes from scratch with no measuring cups. Number twelve on this list cost her less than thirty cents. Number seven used fruit her children picked from a lot behind the church. Number twenty-three was a recipe she never wrote down. These twenty-five desserts were not fancy. They were made by Black mothers who turned flour, sugar, butter, and memory into something that held a family together. If you have not yet subscribed to this channel, now is a good time. We are counting down from number twenty-five.

By https://www.youtube.com/@TheHungryHistorian