As nouns the difference between hotcake and hoecake
is that
hotcake is a pancake while
hoecake is 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.
Other Comparisons: What's the difference?
hotcake English
Noun
( en noun)
A pancake.
- For breakfast he ordered a stack of hotcakes with butter and syrup.
Related terms
* sell like hotcakes
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hoecake English
Noun
( en noun)
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.
See also
* johnnycake
References
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