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hoecake

English

Etymology

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

Noun

hoecake (plural hoecakes)

  1. (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.

See also

  • johnnycake

References

  • hoecake in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
  • Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (1948) Cross Creek, ?ISBN, page 219.

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johnnycake

English

Alternative forms

  • jonnycake

Etymology

From johnny, alteration of journey, + cake.

Pronunciation

  • (US) IPA(key): /?d???.ni??ke?k/

Noun

johnnycake (plural johnnycakes)

  1. (US) A dense, baked or fried flatbread made of cornmeal.

Synonyms

  • (dense baked or fried flatbread): ashcake, battercake, New England cornbread, corncake, cornpone, hoecake, journeycake, mushbread, pone, Shawneecake

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