hoecake
A type of cornbread or cornmeal cake, made with water and saltA 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.
Meaning
1 senses(Southern US, dated)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.
In Jean Fritz's children's book George Washington's Breakfast, the protagonist finds out that George Washington may have eaten hoecakes for breakfast.
thin usually unleavened johnnycake made of cornmeal; originally baked on the blade of a hoe over an open fire (southern)
Origin
From hoe + cake, since it was often cooked on a hoe (a type of pan, not the gardening implFrom hoe + cake, since it was often cooked on a hoe (a type of pan, not the gardening implement).
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