hoecake
English edit
Etymology edit
hoe + cake, since it was often cooked on a hoe (a type of pan, not the gardening implement).
Noun edit
hoecake (plural hoecakes)
- (dated, Southern US) A type of cornbread or cornmeal cake, made with water and salt. It was originally baked before the fire or in the ashes on a type of iron pan called a hoe; in modern times, it is fried in cooking oil in a skillet.
- In Jean Fritz's children's book George Washington's Breakfast, the protagonist finds out that George Washington may have eaten hoecakes for breakfast.
See also edit
References edit
- “hoecake”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (1948) Cross Creek, →ISBN, page 219.