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The Aunt Jemima pancake fortune tale from Louisiana
A historic narrative tells how Aunt Jemima rose from a plantation cook in Louisiana to fame, selling her pancake recipe for gold after traveling with guests from the South to the North. It details the development of Aunt Jemima Pancake Flour and its use in muffins waffles and buckwheat cakes, produced by Aunt Jemima Mills Company in St. Joseph Missouri.
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Aunt Jemima
Colonel Higbee
Louisiana
Jemima
Jemimai
Mississippi
Robert E. Lee
Aunt
America
Aunt Jemima Mills Company
St. Joseph
Missouri
Bank of the Mississippi
Aunt Jemima. Mills Company