Tale from White, American Negro Folk Songs:
A Negress being tried before Judge Crutchfield in Richmond, VA (1910s) for being intoxicated. The judge asked her what she did when she was drunk. She replied that she sang "Shortnin' bread." The judge ordered her to sing it. When she got down to the skillet, the judge sang:
"$5.00 for the skillet,
$5.00 for the lid,
$10.00 fine for the shortening bread."
The Trad. Ballad Index only dates the song to 1915 (collected from white singers). Probably not older than 1900.