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Johnny cake   /dʒˈɑni keɪk/   Listen
Johnny cake

noun
1.
Cornbread usually cooked pancake-style on a griddle (chiefly New England).  Synonyms: johnnycake, journey cake.






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"Johnny cake" Quotes from Famous Books



... his mother with a laugh, "but lots of boys named Johnny do eat it. However, just at the last minute I find that I have no corn meal. Now who wants to go to the store for a bag full, so I can make the Johnny cake?" ...
— Curly and Floppy Twistytail - The Funny Piggie Boys • Howard R. Garis

... soaked with rain, feeling the warmth of the cabin fire. The rifle of John Crockett supplied his guests with the choicest venison steaks, and his wife baked in the ashes the "journey cake," since called johnny cake, made of meal from corn pounded in a mortar or ground in a hand-mill. The brilliant flame of the pitch-pine knot illumined the cabin; and around the fire these hardy men often kept wakeful until midnight, smoking their pipes, telling their ...
— David Crockett: His Life and Adventures • John S. C. Abbott



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