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  • My night-round of visits to the sick having been completed, I was soon seated by my own fireside, watching the operation of making and baking a corn hoecake, which, with some smoked beef of my own preparation and a cup of corn-coffee, made my supper on this Christmas eve.

    Memories A Record of Personal Experience and Adventure During Four Years of War Fannie A. Beers

  • He's bringin 'nice bread an' nice corn-coffee; an 'when we stops workin' mother'll take the tater peelin's and carry them to the farmer, and the farmer'll give her a drop o 'good buttermilk for her little boy.

    The Dramatic Works of Gerhart Hauptmann Volume I Gerhart Hauptmann 1904

  • He had provided milk, corn-coffee, butter and rolls, and cold turkey.

    The end of an era, 1899

  • My night-round of visits to the sick having been completed, I was soon seated by my own fireside, watching the operation of making and baking a corn hoecake, which, with some smoked beef of my own preparation and a cup of corn-coffee, made my supper on this Christmas eve.

    Memories Beers, Fannie A. 1888

  • The old cook visited me occasionally, preparing me corn-coffee, and sometimes boiling a bit of bacon, when I had grown too feeble to accomplish it myself.

    Twelve years a slave : narrative of Solomon Northup, a citizen of New-York, kidnapped in Washington City in 1841, and rescued in 1853--, b. 1808 1853

  • The freshness of the morning air, the extreme beauty of the place, the lovely birds that flitted from tree to tree, the exquisite shapes and colours of the flowers, still dew-bespangled, and above all, the tenderness with which George treated him, soothed my father, and when he and George had lit a fire and made some hot corn-coffee -- with a view to which Yram had put up a bottle of milk -- he felt so much restored as to look forward to the rest of his journey without alarm.

    Erewhon Revisited Samuel Butler 1868

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  • (noun) - A drink made of Indian corn, parched and used as coffee 1800s. --William Craigie's Dictionary of American English, 1940

    April 22, 2018