Cornmeal vs Hoecake - What's the difference?
cornmeal | hoecake |
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.
A type of cornbread or cornmeal cake, made of water and salt. It was originally baked before the fire or in the ashes on a type of iron pan called a hoe (not a gardening hoe!) now 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.