This Southern Delicacy Leaves Much to Chew On
Briefly

In 2019, Mrs. Moore's granddaughter Hazel Moore took up her grandmother's work and began to cook every Sunday again at St. Cindy's Holiness Church, chew bread included.
Chew bread is a treat similar to a dense blondie that can be found in Black Southern households and at church functions.
Chew bread may have stemmed from sharecroppers, like Lucinda Moore, who learned to make a dessert with the leftover ingredients the landowners gave her to cook for her seven siblings.
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