Hoecake

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Hoecake \Hoe"cake`\, n.
     A cake of Indian meal, water, and salt, baked before the fire
     or in the ashes; -- so called because often cooked on a hoe.
     [Southern U.S.]
     [1913 Webster]



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  hoecake
       n : thin usually unleavened johnnycake made of cornmeal;
           originally baked on the blade of a hoe over an open fire
           (Southern)