Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Coarse bread, generally in the form of a thin cake, made of Indian meal, water, and salt: originally that cooked on the broad, thin blade of a cotton-field hoe.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Southern U.S. A cake of Indian meal, water, and salt, baked before the fire or in the ashes; -- so called because often cooked on a hoe.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun dated, Southern US A type of
cornbread orcornmeal cake , made of water and salt. It was originally baked before the fire or in the ashes on ahoe , now it is fried in cooking oil in a skillet.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun thin usually unleavened johnnycake made of cornmeal; originally baked on the blade of a hoe over an open fire (southern)
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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This recipe is a take on the Southern hoecake, which is often made only with cornmeal.
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This recipe is a take on the Southern hoecake, which is often made only with cornmeal.
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Yes, mam, de spider got three legs dat it sets on en de griddle, dat what I makes dese little thin kind of hoecake on.
Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves South Carolina Narratives, Part 1 Work Projects Administration
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I've never had a hoecake but always wanted to try them ... what a perfect way to eat them!
From hoecakes to hope | Homesick Texan Homesick Texan 2008
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I have been wondering for nearly 4 years what a hoecake was.
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I have a Paula Dean hoecake mix, I guess I have to make it now.
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But they started to cook with it, beginning with native fry cake, which they called hoe bread or hoecake.
One Big Table Molly O’Neill 2010
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How did I get to be 71 years old without eating a single hoecake?
From hoecakes to hope | Homesick Texan Homesick Texan 2008
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Ingredients in Paula Deen's hoecake mix: yellow cornmeal, unbleached flour, buttermilk, sugar, baking powder
From hoecakes to hope | Homesick Texan Homesick Texan 2008
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"There's not that big of a gap between a piece of fried chicken and a waffle and chicken with a biscuit or a hoecake."
Archive 2004-09-01 2004
treeseed commented on the word hoecake
My Granny makes the best cracklin' ho cake �?� It tastes so good I can't wait to dip my plate �?� She's cookin' ham hocks in some white-acre peas �?� She's cookin' turnip greens and macaroni and cheese �?� Get on out my way I got to ease up to that pot �?� I like my cornbread while it's still piping hot �?� I love this food Lord I can't get enough
_Excerpt of lyrics from Ho Cakes, lyrics by JJ Grey of Mofro
Special flat, round cast iron griddles called hoe cake griddles are available commercially. Google up Paula Deen's awesome recipe.
February 4, 2008