Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Cornmeal bread usually shaped into a flat cake and baked or fried on a griddle.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In Australia, a cake baked on the ashes or cooked in a frying-pan.
- noun In the southern United States, a cake of Indian meal mixed with water or milk, seasoned with salt, and baked or toasted by being spread on a board set on edge before a fire. It is of negro origin.
- noun In other parts of the United States, any unsweetened flat cake of Indian meal, sometimes mixed with mashed pumpkin (especially in New England), and usually baked in a pan: incorrectly used at times for corn-bread, pone, etc.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun U.S. A kind of bread made of the meal of maize (Indian corn), mixed with water or milk, etc., and baked.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun US A dense, baked or fried
flatbread made ofcornmeal .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun cornbread usually cooked pancake-style on a griddle (chiefly New England)
- noun cornbread usually cooked pancake-style on a griddle (chiefly New England)
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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They taught colonists to make a corn batter which, when cooked on a rock griddle or wooden board, became the flat bread known as johnnycake or journey cake for its rock-hard texture and inability to spoil.
One Big Table Molly O’Neill 2010
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In that case, it's much like johnnycake, which is a moist cornbread served with syrup, usually - in my case - for supper.
RutlandHerald.com 2010
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The meals were heavy on johnnycake and meat, with garden produce in season; everything eaten was grown on the property.
George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011
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The meals were heavy on johnnycake and meat, with garden produce in season; everything eaten was grown on the property.
George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011
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The meals were heavy on johnnycake and meat, with garden produce in season; everything eaten was grown on the property.
George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011
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Seared tuna, smoked trout, and poached salmon over a seaweed salad; herb-infused turkey breast with sweet potatoes, cranberry johnnycake, and bacon-wrapped green beans; and a chocolate-mousse crunch cake with apricot-and-cherry sauce.
Food Fight 2009
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The meals were heavy on johnnycake and meat, with garden produce in season; everything eaten was grown on the property.
George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011
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Seared tuna, smoked trout, and poached salmon over a seaweed salad; herb-infused turkey breast with sweet potatoes, cranberry johnnycake, and bacon-wrapped green beans; and a chocolate-mousse crunch cake with apricot-and-cherry sauce.
Food Fight 2009
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Mix together 1cup johnnycake meal or cornmeal, preferably stone ground see Sources, page 359, 1 teaspoon sugar, and 1/2 teaspoon table salt in a large bowl.
SARA MOULTON’S EVERYDAY FAMILY DINNERS SARA MOULTON 2010
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Mix together 1cup johnnycake meal or cornmeal, preferably stone ground see Sources, page 359, 1 teaspoon sugar, and 1/2 teaspoon table salt in a large bowl.
SARA MOULTON’S EVERYDAY FAMILY DINNERS SARA MOULTON 2010
arcadia commented on the word johnnycake
Food shortages persisted until the army was reduced to living on johnnycake and corn dodger.
July 3, 2009