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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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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)

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

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

I was always proud of my johnny cake.

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