johnny cake

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

Example Sentences

You'll be like Ethan here, who tells me 'bonny clabber' is perfectly splendid, and that he 'loves' Jerusha's Johnny-cake.

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"Maw and me done put yo' in a Johnny-cake," she said, an outsider might have thought enigmatically.

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A great slab of johnny-cake and a cup of hot coffee seemed to be the only thing on the bill of fare.

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They are fine white powders that would make the johnny-cake light and nice when it was baked; for she was making johnny-cake.

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And she took the cover off, and the johnny-cake was nice and brown, and just right and smoking hot.

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