different between cornmeal vs hoecake

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corn +? meal

cornmeal (countable and uncountable, plural cornmeals)

Dried corn (maize) milled (ground) to a coarse meal.
She made a kind of polenta from cornmeal and chicken broth, with some cheese sprinkled on top.

hoe +? cake, since it was often cooked on a hoe (not the gardening implement).

hoecake (plural hoecakes)

(dated, Southern US) A type of cornbread or cornmeal cake, made with water and salt. It was originally baked before the fire or in the ashes on a type of iron pan called a hoe; in modern times, it is fried in cooking oil in a skillet.
In Jean Fritz's children's book George Washington's Breakfast, the protagonist finds out that George Washington may have eaten hoecakes for breakfast.

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