hoecaken.
/ˈhəʊkeɪk/, U.S. /ˈhoʊˌkeɪk/ U.S.
Coarse bread, made of Indian meal, water, and salt, and usually in the form of a thin cake.
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1745 W. Logan Jrnl. 12 Oct. in Pennsylvania Mag. Hist. (1912) XXXVI. 12 Breakfasted on Tea & Hoe Cake Bread, which we have done in common.
1745 W. Logan Jrnl. 21 Oct. in Pennsylvania Mag. Hist. (1912) XXXVI. 162 Got Breakfast on Tea & Hoe Cake.
1774 P. V. Fithian Jrnl. 15 Jan. in Jrnl. & Lett. (1900) 93 Sup'd on chocolate, & hoe-Cake, so Called because baked on a Hoe before the fire.
1780 W. 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.
1796 J. Barlow Hasty-pudding i, in N.Y. Mag. Jan. 44 Some talk of Hoe-cake, fair Virginia's pride.
1809 W. Irving Hist. N.Y. I. iv. iv. 232 The enemy..were represented as a gigantic gunpowder race of men, who lived on hoe cakes and bacon.
1885 Boston (Mass.) Jrnl. 4 Sept. 2/4 Perhaps Americans will..make international the power and elegance of hoe-cake and baked beans.
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