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ˈjohnny-cake
Also Johhny-cake.
[Origin uncertain; referred to in 1775, and by some later writers, as journey-cake, which may be the original form.
The cake is said to be of Negro origin.]
a. U.S. A cake made of maize-meal, in the Southern States toasted before a fire, elsewhere usually baked in a pan. Also W. Indies, a scone or dumpling (cf. quot. 1831).
b. Australia. A cake made of wheat-meal, baked on the ashes or fried in a pan.
1739S. Carolina Gaz. 22 Dec. 4/2 (Advt.) (Th. Suppl.), New Iron Plates to cook Johnny Cakes or gridel bread on. 1775Romans Florida 125 Notwithstanding it [rice] is..only fit for puddings,..or to make the wafer-like bread called journey cakes in Carolina. 1793J. Barlow Hasty Pudding, Rich Johnny-Cake, this mouth has often tried. 1831J. Porter Sir E. Seaward's Narr. I. 229 My dear helpmate made us some johnny cakes, a West Indian sort of tea-bread. 1861L. A. Meredith Over the Straits v. 154 The dough-cakes fried in fat, called ‘Johnny-cakes’. 1868G. G. Channing Early Recoll. Newport, R.I. 25 The ‘journey-cake’, vulgarly called Johnny-cake,—how can I sufficiently describe it? 1890Melbourne Argus 16 Aug. 13/1 Here I, a new chum, could..make a sweet and wholesome johnny cake. 1892Nation (N.Y.) 3 Mar. 168/2. 1893 in C. Sullivan Jamaica Cookery Bk. 1952S. Selvon Brighter Sun vi. 109 Over there, nastiness and poverty, a tin cup of weak tea and a johnny cake or a roti. 1972J. Hewitt N.Y. Times Heritage Cook Bk. 96 Massachusetts johnnycakes usually have wheat flour and corn meal in them. |