johnny cake
Britishnoun
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a type of thin flat corn bread baked on a griddle
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a thin cake of flour and water paste cooked in the ashes of a fire or in a pan
Example Sentences
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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
I was always proud of my johnny cake.
From Dab Kinzer A Story of a Growing Boy by Stoddard, William Osborn
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
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
Still more so when it had acquired sufficient hardness to be made into johnny cake by the aid of a tin grater.
From Daniel Boone The Pioneer of Kentucky by Abbott, John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot)
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