He had a piece of roasted pork and "ashcake," and offered me some which I was afraid to refuse Of course I did not inform on him.    From Wordnik.com.  [The new man : twenty-nine years a slave, twenty-nine years a free man,] Reference

Marster fed us plenty ashcake, fresh meat, and ash roasted.    From Wordnik.com.  [Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Georgia Narratives, Part 4] Reference

Brer Fox sez, sezee, he gwine ter bake hoecake; Brer Rabbit sez, sezee, he gwine ter make ashcake.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nights With Uncle Remus Myths and Legends of the Old Plantation] Reference

Wid a ashcake in his han’.    From Wordnik.com.  [0 1132. Ashcake by Thomas Nelson Page. Stedman, Edmund Clarence, ed. 1900. An American Anthology, 1787-1900] Reference