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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

Tom was uneasy after that, and wished now when it was too late that he had reserved a portion of the johnny cake and bacon that had been furnished him.

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

Instead of fresh vegetables, home-grown fowl and the other concomitants of the country-board illusions, we were served with such delicacies as creamed cod-fish, canned salmon and johnny cake.

From My Actor-Husband A true story of American stage life by Anonymous

I was always proud of my johnny cake.

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

We'd all get round de trough and drink wid our mouth and hold our johnny cake in 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