Hoecake (Noun)
Meaning
Thin usually unleavened johnnycake made of cornmeal; originally baked on the blade of a hoe over an open fire (southern).
Classification
Nouns denoting foods and drinks.
Examples
- She ate a warm hoecake for breakfast while watching the sunrise over the Appalachian Mountains.
- During the Civil War, Confederate soldiers often survived on little more than hoecakes and bacon.
- Her grandmother used to make delicious hoecakes in a cast-iron skillet over an open flame.
- As a child, he would help his grandfather cook hoecakes on the blade of a hoe during family camping trips.
- The historic reenactor carefully prepared a hoecake on the blade of a hoe, just as the pioneers had done before her.