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






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Johnnycake" Quotes from Famous Books



... I slept but little, and all Friday morning I was in a burning fever. At noon I could not eat my lunch, but I tried to, manfully, and as I munched on the tasteless morsels, salt tears rained on the johnnycake I held in my hand. And even when the girls brought in big bunches of wild flowers and cornstalks, and began to decorate the ...
— Little Journeys To the Homes of the Great, Volume 3 (of 14) • Elbert Hubbard

... can be thrown where it is wanted, is an excellent device for night fishing. And during the heated term, when fish are slow and sluggish, I have found the following plan works well: Bake a hard, well salted, water Johnnycake, break it into pieces the size at a hen's egg and drop the pieces into a spring-hole. This calls a host of minnows and the larger fish follow the minnows. It will prove more successful on perch, catties, chubs, etc., than ...
— Woodcraft • George W. Sears

... did, he aiding her with the vegetables, she mixing johnnycake for the entire squad, slicing the bacon, and setting the ...
— Special Messenger • Robert W. Chambers

... said Mrs. Stoddard, as Anne came into the kitchen. "You shall have a boiled egg for your breakfast, and I am cooking a fine johnnycake for you before the fire. You must be nigh starved. To think of that Amos Cary hiding the oar instead of fetching ...
— A Little Maid of Province Town • Alice Turner Curtis

... yield any degree of submission, to the pressure of an overwhelming force. I was expecting to see these Indians again, and to have had further conversation with them. But I am informed by Charles Johnnycake that they have gone to Fort Leavenworth and expect to go on to Washington. Hearing this, I hesitated about troubling you with this letter at all, as, in that case, you would see them yourself. But I have concluded to send it, as affording me an opportunity to express ...
— The American Indian as Participant in the Civil War • Annie Heloise Abel



Words linked to "Johnnycake" :   Shawnee cake, cornbread, journey cake



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