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Hoecake

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Noun
  1. 1
    A type of cornbread or cornmeal cake, made with water and salt. It was originally baked before the fire or in the ashes on a type of iron pan called a hoe; in modern times, it is fried in cooking oil in a skillet. Southern-US, dated

    "In Jean Fritz's children's book George Washington's Breakfast, the protagonist finds out that George Washington may have eaten hoecakes for breakfast."

  2. 2
    thin usually unleavened johnnycake made of cornmeal; originally baked on the blade of a hoe over an open fire (southern) wordnet

Etymology

From hoe + cake, since it was often cooked on a hoe (a type of pan, not the gardening implement).

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