homony

This consisted of venison stewed in bear's oil, of fresh corn-cakes, milk, and a dish called homony; and the drink was honey and water, very cool and agreeable.

Travels in North America, From Modern Writers With Remarks and Observations; Exhibiting a Connected View of the Geography and Present State of that Quarter of the Globe William Bingley 1798

It was pressingly necessary to provide a residence for the President, or presiding Professor, and also a Steward's Hall, wherein the hungry students of the period might turn hog and homony, beef and potatoes and the juicy "collards" into muscle and bones and brains and nerves.

An Address on the History of the Buildings of the University of North Carolina, by Kemp P. Battle, LL. D, President of the University, Delivered on University Day, 1883, in Gerrard Hall Kemp Plummer 1883

In the morning, my mistress sent to the overseer to give me a severe whipping, for she said the homony was not beat quite enough, though very good.

Life of William Grimes, the Runaway Slave, Brought Down to the Present Time 1855

I had worked as hard as I could, and beat the homony as I thought sufficiently.

Life of William Grimes, the Runaway Slave, Brought Down to the Present Time 1855

Page 15 morning, my mistress sent to the overseer to give me a severe whipping for she said the homony was not beat quite enough, though very good.

Life of William Grimes, the Runaway Slave. Written by Himself 1825

I had worked as hard as I could, and beat the homony as I thought sufficiently.

Life of William Grimes, the Runaway Slave. Written by Himself 1825

THE repast is now brought in, consisting of venison, stewed with bear's oil, fresh corn cakes, milk and homony, and our drink honey and water, very cool and agreeable.

Travels Through North & South Carolina, Georgia, East & West Florida, the Cherokee Country, the Extensive Territories of the Muscogulges, or Creek Confederacy, and the Country of the Chactaws; Containing An Account of the Soil and Natural Productions of Those Regions, Together with Observations on the Manners of the Indians. 1823

They pound them to pieces, and then cast them into boiling water, which, after passing through fine strainers, preserves the most oily part of the liquid: this they call by a name which signifies Hiccory milk; it is as sweet and rich as fresh cream, and is an ingredient in most of their cookery, especially homony and corn cakes.

Travels Through North & South Carolina, Georgia, East & West Florida, the Cherokee Country, the Extensive Territories of the Muscogulges, or Creek Confederacy, and the Country of the Chactaws; Containing An Account of the Soil and Natural Productions of Those Regions, Together with Observations on the Manners of the Indians. 1823

After the meat, they offered us homony made of corn dried in the milk, mixed with beans, which was prepared with buffaloe marrow, and tasted extremely well; also pounded and made into gruel.

Brackenridge's Journal of a Voyage up The Missouri River, in 1811 1811

Their food consists of lied corn homony for breakfast, a slice of fat pork and a biscuit for dinner, and a pot of mush for supper, with a pound of tallow in it.

Brackenridge's Journal of a Voyage up The Missouri River, in 1811 1811