Definition of "johnnycake" []

• New England & Upper Midwest Cornmeal bread usually shaped into a flat cake and baked or fried on a griddle. Also called regionally ashcake, batter bread, battercake, corn cake, cornpone, hoecake, journey cake, pone, Shawnee cake. (noun)

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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."
• "In that case, it's much like johnnycake, which is a moist cornbread served with syrup, usually - in my case - for supper."
• "The meals were heavy on johnnycake and meat, with garden produce in season; everything eaten was grown on the property."