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Johnnycake

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. New England & Upper Midwest Cornmeal bread usually shaped into a flat cake and baked or fried on a griddle. Also called regionally ashcake, batter bread, battercake, corn cake, cornpone, hoecake, journey cake, pone, Shawnee cake.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. A dense, baked or fried flatbread made of cornmeal.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. A kind of bread made of the meal of maize (Indian corn), mixed with water or milk, etc., and baked.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. In the southern United States, a cake of Indian meal mixed with water or milk, seasoned with salt, and baked or toasted by being spread on a board set on edge before a fire. It is of negro origin.

n. In other parts of the United States, any unsweetened flat cake of Indian meal, sometimes mixed with mashed pumpkin (especially in New England), and usually baked in a pan: incorrectly used at times for corn-bread, pone, etc.

n. In Australia, a cake baked on the ashes or cooked in a frying-pan.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. cornbread usually cooked pancake-style on a griddle (chiefly New England)

Word Usage

"They taught colonists to make a corn batter which, when cooked on a rock griddle or wooden board, became the flat bread known as johnnycake or journey cake for its rock-hard texture and inability to spoil."

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

cornbread

Hyponym

Shawnee cake hoecake

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

battercake cornpone journeycake Shawneecake hoecake

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