Benne vs Bennet - What's the difference?
benne | bennet |
(botany, chiefly, attributive) Sesame.
* 2003 , Carole Marsh, The Kitchen House: How Yesterday's Black Women Created Today's Most Popular & Famous American Foods! ,
* 2010 , Frederick C. Knight, Working the Diaspora: The Impact of African Labor on the Anglo-American World, 1650—1850 ,
* 2013 , David S. Shields, Chapter 3: Prospecting for Oil'', John T. Edge, Elizabeth S. D. Engelhardt, Ted Ownby (editors), ''The Larder: Food Studies Methods from the American South ,
, a less common spelling of Bennett.
, in modern use often transferred back from the surname.
As an adverb benne
is .As a noun bennet is
the common yellow-flowered avens of europe (geum urbanum ); herb bennet.benne
English
Noun
(-)- benne''' oil; '''benne seed
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- Benne' (sesame) seeds were secretly brought to America on the slave ships by black women who had used them in their native cooking. ' Benne seed cookies and candy were made by black cooks in Charleston and other lowcountry South Carolina locations.
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- For exampl, Rosanna Williams recounted that her African-born father would "plant mostly benne' and rice." Emma Hunter also remembered that her grandmother planted ' benne .
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- A window on the small-scale world of sesame oil production and benne' cake livestock feeding is found in the pages of Thomas Walter Peyre's plantation journal (1834–59) at the South Carolina Historical Society.African Anerican farming of '''benne''' can be imputed only by anecdotal reports, yet numerous records attest to '''benne’s''' importance in the slave diet. Indeed, a complex ' benne cookery adapted from African practices was recorded.
