ginger-cake

No, sir, I don't mean he was a white man; he just ginger-cake color, so my mother say.

Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves South Carolina Narratives, Part 2 Work Projects Administration

When we returned I discovered some ginger among the supplies and thinking it time for variety in our bill of fare, and it being Cap. 's birthday, I made a large ginger-cake which was voted prime.

A Canyon Voyage The Narrative of the Second Powell Expedition down the Green-Colorado River from Wyoming, and the Explorations on Land, in the Years 1871 and 1872 Frederick S. Dellenbaugh

I knows, both white and black, and de ginger-cake women lak me.

Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves South Carolina Narratives, Part 4 Work Projects Administration

There was a deep and tender glance at me, and a fiery look of indignation for Aunt Katy at the same moment, and when she took the parched corn from me and gave me, instead, a large ginger-cake, she read Aunt Katy a lecture which was never forgotten.

Stories of Achievement, Volume III (of 6) Orators and Reformers Various 1918

There was a deep and tender glance at me, and a fiery look of indignation for Aunt Katy at the same moment, and when she took the parched corn from me, and gave me, instead, a large ginger-cake, she read Aunt Katy a lecture which was never forgotten.

Frederick Douglass 1906

There was golden honey in the comb; there was johnny-cake, hot and yellow and melting in your mouth; strawberry jam that tasted almost as good as the fresh fruit itself; ginger-cake, dark and rich and spicy; milk that was almost cream for the children, and steaming fragrant coffee for their elders.

Our Little Canadian Cousin 1904

He says he traces himself back to Adam in this town, but if he ever give it as much as a ginger-cake it's been kept a secret.

Miss Gibbie Gault Kate Langley Bosher 1898

There was deep and tender pity in her glance at me, and, at the same moment, a fiery indignation at Aunt Katy, and while she took the corn from me, and gave in its stead a large ginger-cake, she read Aunt Katy a lecture which was never forgotten.

Life and Times of Frederick Douglass, Written by Himself. His Early Life as a Slave, His Escape from Bondage, and His Complete History to the Present Time, Including His Connection with the Anti-slavery Movement; His Labors in Great Britain as Well as in His Own Country; His Experience in the Conduct of an Influential Newspaper; His Connection with the Underground Railroad; His Relations with John Brown and the Harper's Ferry Raid; His Recruiting the 54th and 55th Mass. Colored Regiments; His Interviews with Presidents Lincoln and Johnson; His Appointment by Gen. Grant to Accompany the Santo Domingo Commission--Also to a Seat in the Council of the District of Columbia; His Appointment as United States Marshal by President R. B. Hayes; Also His Appointment to Be Recorder of Deeds in Washington by President J. A. Garfield; with Many Other Interesting and Important Events of His Most Eventful Life; With an Introduction by Mr. George L. Ruffin, of Boston 1892

"I'll bet a dollar to a ginger-cake I know who you mean," he said, eagerly.

Dixie Hart 1888

I should say there were three or four hundred scholars, of all ages, sizes, and colors -- black, brown, white apparently, and all shades of what we used to call 'ginger-cake.'

Bricks without Straw A Novel 1880