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johnny cake

British  

noun

1. a type of thin flat corn bread baked on a griddle

2. a thin cake of flour and water paste cooked in the ashes of a fire or in a pan

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johnny cake

Any day is a good time for a johnny cake, cornmeal flatbread topped with smoked whitefish and beads of salmon roe.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 28, 2017

Tea was laid on the parlour table—ham, sardines, a whole pound of butter, and such a large johnny cake that it looked like an advertisement for somebody's baking-powder.

From The Garden Party and Other Stories by Mansfield, Katherine

Among other luxuries, "hasty pudding" and johnny cake became common articles of diet.

From Three Years in the Sixth Corps A Concise Narrative of Events in the Army of the Potomac, from 1861 to the Close of the Rebellion, April, 1865 by Stevens, George T.

For bread we had cold johnny cake, for we were out of flour, as no trading steamer had passed since the ice in the river broke up.

From Field and Forest The Fortunes of a Farmer by Optic, Oliver

Sometime she would give us johnny cake an plenty of buttermilk to drink wid it.

From Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Arkansas Narratives, Part 2 by Work Projects Administration