hoe-cake

The little hoe-cake he gives them, takes but a mill of the wealth with which they fill his purse; and should his extravagance lighten it somewhat, he has only to order his brutal overseer to sell -- soul and body

Twenty-Two Years a Slave, and Forty Years a Freeman Embracing a Correspondence of Several Years, While President of Wilberforce Colony, London, Canada West Austin Steward

Aunt Elsie was very glad to see Joe, for she loved children, and always ran to the cupboard to get them a piece of wholesome frontier pie, or gingerbread, or bit of hoe-cake; but Joe said he couldn't stop; because his mother had her clothes already sprinkled and folded ready for the irons, and had told him to hurry back as fast as ever he could.

Little Ferns For Fanny's Little Friends Fanny Fern

After broiling and eating the bird, together with some hoe-cake which they had in their pockets, the boys resumed their hunt for deer.

Dick in the Everglades A. W. Dimock

Another slave told us that when the slaves got hungry before dinner time they would ask the nursing mothers to bring them back hoe-cake when they went to nurse the babies.

Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Georgia Narratives, Part 4 Work Projects Administration

When he approached the camp he saw Dick sitting up and tossing bits of hoe-cake to a 'coon that was watching him with some suspicion from a distance of three or four yards.

Dick in the Everglades A. W. Dimock

That night, they had a good supper of broiled beefsteak, good hoe-cake, milk and butter, and coffee in abundance.

Fred Fearnot's New Ranch and How He and Terry Managed It Hal Standish

Madam P----, who soon set before us a hot supper, which, as we were jaded by the long ride, and had fasted for twelve hours on bacon sandwiches and cold hoe-cake, was the one thing needful for us.

The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No. 1, July, 1862 Various

She then gave me plenty to eat, -- hot hoe-cake and buttermilk.

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

Madam P----, who soon set before us a hot supper, which, as we were jaded by the long ride, and had fasted for twelve hours, on bacon-sandwiches and cold hoe-cake, was the one thing needful to us.

Among the Pines or, South in Secession Time James R. Gilmore

He took little bits of wet hoe-cake that I threw him and rolled them up into balls with his funny little hands before he ate them.

Dick in the Everglades A. W. Dimock