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  • noun johnnycake

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Examples

  • So, the veggie tacos arrive on two thick house-made tortillas topped with black beans, chunks of ripe avocado, cheese, rice and a totally addictive pineapple salsa; the flat corncake, the arepa, is stuffed with cheese and served with tangy cabbage.

    At Fruit Bat, a bar menu that's vegan-friendly Lavanya Ramanathan 2010

  • Appetizer course: Strawberry and pecan salad with a bacon and goat cheese corncake

    Plating Well in a Small Kitchen 2008

  • Army Sgt. Juan Salas, 23, recalls what he missed most while serving in Iraq: hot showers, clean socks, his mom's Venezuelan corncake dish (arepas) and his family.

    TROOPS: THE PEN-PAL PLATOON 2007

  • Earwig stuffed a huge piece of a corncake into his mouth.

    Brothers Majere Stein, Kevin, 1954- 1989

  • Supper had been served at least five minutes before they filed into the dining-room; but their astonishing appetites, which gave a relish even to soggy corncake and watery tea, almost counterbalanced any fears for their future walks with Polly.

    Polly and the Princess Emma C. Dowd

  • "I've a voice like a corncake," said Smith, disengaging himself.

    Round the World in Seven Days Herbert Strang

  • Now, as soon as Gertrudis stops sending in corncake, I propose that we adjourn to the stables and look over the mounts.

    Blue Bonnet's Ranch Party Edyth Ellerbeck Read 1924

  • There were corncake and moose venison for Thanksgiving dinner.

    Good Cheer Stories Every Child Should Know Asa Don Dickinson 1918

  • A great hunger for corncake swept through that part of the state; and in our own little neighbourhood a searching canvass of the resources of the five log farm-houses followed.

    Good Cheer Stories Every Child Should Know Asa Don Dickinson 1918

  • Meanwhile Marthy had made coffee and baked a corncake in the hot ashes.

    Hagar's Daughter: A Story of Southern Caste Prejudice Pauline Elizabeth 1902

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