Johnny-cake

It was a snowball, round, symmetrical, just such a magnified copy of the backyard one as might be expected to follow a boy in dreams after too much Johnny-cake for supper.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 29, March, 1860 Various

And so it was promptly settled there and then, and Elizabeth understood when Annie passed her the Johnny-cake again.

'Lizbeth of the Dale Mary Esther Miller MacGregor 1918

Gordon bade Sarah Emily and the two older girls pass the grape cordial and the Johnny-cake, which were all in readiness.

'Lizbeth of the Dale Mary Esther Miller MacGregor 1918

He had brought out, from the pack, granite-ware plates and cups, a stew-pan and a coffee-pot, a ruddied paper of meat and a can of peas, rolls, Johnny-cake, maple syrup, a screw-top bottle of cream, pasteboard boxes of salt and pepper and sugar.

The Trail of the Hawk A Comedy of the Seriousness of Life Sinclair Lewis 1918

The Johnny-cake was made of wheat-flour dough, with "shortenin '" (some form of grease or fat) in it; and this, as with the hoe-cake, was spread thin on a hickory or an ash board and baked before the coals.

With Sabre and Scalpel. The Autobiography of a Soldier and Surgeon John Allan 1914

Johnny-cake you mix of corn-meal three cups, flour one cup, sugar four spoonfuls, salt one spoonful, baking-powder four spoonfuls, and lard twice as much as for biscuits.

The Mountains Stewart Edward White 1909

With your good leave I'll take a bit of this, and he stooped to lift up the Johnny-cake that had been all this while on the hearth.

Twilight stories 1905

Joe's fingers were creamy; his mouth was half filled with Johnny-cake, and his pocket on the right bulged to its utmost capacity with the same, as he held forth the basket; but the little woman was afraid to trust him, as she had been afraid to trust her neighbors.

Twilight stories 1905

Johnny-cake you mix of corn-meal three cups, flour one cup, sugar four spoonfuls, salt one spoonful, baking-powder four spoonfuls, and lard twice as much as for biscuits.

The Mountains 1904

On the way we halt at a clear spring, bubbling up by the roadside, and lunch, always, among other tempting edibles, upon shortened Johnny-cake!

Plantation life before emancipation, 1892