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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Example Sentences

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

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)

By the time he had made these observations his bacon and johnny cake were gone, and he got up and crept into Pomp's bunk.

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

There was a big hunk of johnny cake on the table, a slice of bacon with a knife handy to cut it, and a bag which proved to contain coffee.

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

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.