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• a variation of johnnycake.

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

Dere's a slice of bacon and some johnny cake for you.

From Elam Storm, The Wolfer Or, The Lost Nugget by Castlemon, Harry

I was always proud of my johnny cake.

From Dab Kinzer A Story of a Growing Boy by Stoddard, William Osborn

They would fill dis trough wid buttermilk and all us chillun would git roun' th' trough an drink wid our mouths an hol' our johnny cake wid our han's.

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

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.