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hoecake U.S.|ˈhəʊkeɪk|
[Orig. cake baked on the broad thin blade of a cotton-field hoe (Cent. Dict.).]
Coarse bread, made of Indian meal, water, and salt, and usually in the form of a thin cake.
1745W. Logan Jrnl. 12 Oct. in Pennsylvania Mag. Hist. (1912) XXXVI. 12 Breakfasted on Tea & Hoe Cake Bread, which we have done in common. 1745Ibid. 21 Oct. 162 Got Breakfast on Tea & Hoe Cake. 1774P. V. Fithian Jrnl. 15 Jan. (1900) 93 Sup'd on chocolate, & hoe-Cake, so Called because baked on a Hoe before the fire. 1780W. Fleming in N. D. Mereness Trav. Amer. Col. (1916) 641, I had lived for a constancy on poor dried buffalo bull beef cured in the smook..without any addition but a piece of Indian hoe-cake. 1793J. Barlow Hasty Pudding i, Some talk of Hoe-cakes, fair Virginia's pride. 1809W. Irving Knickerb. (1861) 138 Great roisters, much given to revel on hoe-cake and bacon. 1885Boston (Mass.) Jrnl. 4 Sept. 2/4 Perhaps Americans will..make international the power and elegance of hoe-cake and baked beans. |