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Three Delicious Recipes to Try This Juneteenth

Try these sweet and savory recipes to mark the holiday!
By Albert G. Lukas and Jessica B. Harris Today is Juneteenth, which honors the date in 1865 when the final enforcement of the Emancipation Proclamation reached Galveston, Texas at the end of the American Civil War. The following year, African American communities began to organize celebrations, and they often focused on foods—especially red foods to symbolize resilience and joy. Sweet Home Café Cookbook celebrates African American cooking and draws upon traditions of family and fellowship strengthened by shared meals, and today we present three recipes that are perfect for your Juneteenth festivities. 1. Texas caviar Also known as marinated black-eyed peas, Texas caviar is the state’s version of a marinated bean salad. It consists of only black-eyed peas or of a mix of various beans, minced bell pepper, and corn. Created around 1940, it has become a Lone Star classic and is guaranteed to turn up at many a Juneteenth celebration. (Recipe) 2. Sweet cherry lemonade Lemonade is popular throughout the South, and the addition of homemade sweet cherry syrup turns it red, making it an ideal drink for Juneteenth picnics and celebrations. Red drinks are traditional at Juneteenth events and may recall the celebratory hibiscus and kola nut teas of West Africa. (Recipe) 3. Red velvet cake Although many think that red velvet cake has been an American standby for centuries, it is actually a 20th-century invention, having originated in the 1920s. The ruby-hued chocolate cake was later adopted with delight by African Americans and began turning up on their menus. The famous Amy Ruth’s soul food restaurant in Harlem began serving it in 1998, and Cake Man Raven opened one of the first bakeries devoted to the cake in Brooklyn in 2000. (Recipe) Read the full recipes.

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On this day in 1865, enslaved African Americans in Texas learned they were free. President Abraham Lincoln had issued the Emancipation Proclamation over two years earlier, but it wasn’t until General Gordon Granger arrived in Galveston to enforce it, on the day now known as Juneteenth, that the last enslaved people in the Confederacy officially gained freedom. Read more about Juneteenth.
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