NOUN
- thin usually unleavened johnnycake made of cornmeal; originally baked on the blade of a hoe over an open fire (southern)
How To Use hoecake In A Sentence
- During the colonial period, heavy breakfast meals of hoecakes and molasses were prepared to fuel the slaves for work.
- They could provide forlorn pullets, certainly from the same farmyard with the lean kine of Egypt, and to these they could add, what was much better left unadded, a villainous species of unleavened bread, a sort of hoecake, not at all improved -- precisely like the run of travelers -- by leaving home and wandering in the Orient. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 87, March, 1875
- He baked hoecakes for the kids in a skillet over an open fire.
- 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
- 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
- This recipe is a take on the Southern hoecake, which is often made only with cornmeal. Spot-On: No Prevention, No Cure
- During the colonial period, heavy breakfast meals of hoecakes (small cornmeal cakes) and molasses were prepared to fuel the slaves for work from sunup to sundown.
- But they started to cook with it, beginning with native fry cake, which they called hoe bread or hoecake. One Big Table
- Three hours later, two steaks, seven hoecakes, five cups of coffee and a huge plate of beans later, he stepped out of Mary's place, contented for the first time in well over a month.
- How did I get to be 71 years old without eating a single hoecake? From hoecakes to hope | Homesick Texan