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johnny cake

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johnny cake, johnny-cake
n
1. (Cookery) US a type of thin flat corn bread baked on a griddle
2. (Cookery) Austral a thin cake of flour and water paste cooked in the ashes of a fire or in a pan
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Noun1.johnny cakejohnny cake - cornbread usually cooked pancake-style on a griddle (chiefly New England)
johnnycake, journey cake
cornbread - bread made primarily of cornmeal
hoecake - thin usually unleavened johnnycake made of cornmeal; originally baked on the blade of a hoe over an open fire (southern)
Shawnee cake - form of johnnycake
New England - a region of northeastern United States comprising Maine and New Hampshire and Vermont and Massachusetts and Rhode Island and Connecticut


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