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Hoecake vs Johnnycake - What's the difference?

hoecake | johnnycake |

Johnnycake is a synonym of hoecake.



As nouns the difference between hoecake and johnnycake

is that 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 while johnnycake is a dense, baked or fried flatbread made of cornmeal.

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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    johnnycake

    English

    (wikipedia johnnycake)

    Alternative forms

    * jonnycake

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (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