hoecake
nounUK /ˈhəʊ.keɪk/
US /ˈhoʊ.keɪk/
A hoecake is a flat bread made from cornmeal and cooked on a hot pan.
Grandma cooked a hoecake on the griddle for breakfast.
OTHER MEANINGS
2. A thin cake of cornmeal batter baked or fried, traditionally associated with the southern United States.
The recipe calls for hoecakes fried in bacon grease.
3. Historically, a small cornmeal cake baked on a hoe blade over an open fire.
Field workers once baked hoecakes on the flat of a hoe.
4. Any simple flat cake made from coarse meal.
She served hoecakes with butter and honey.