johnny-cake

It began with fruit, and may be followed by ham or bacon and eggs with johnny-cake and potatoes, or a simple breakfast may be started with cereal, served with cream, and followed by broiled finnan haddie and baked potatoes.

An Edwardian Breakfast | Edwardian Promenade 2009

The maize is the staple of the country; you see it in the fields; you have corn-cobs for breakfast; corncobs, mush, and hominy for dinner; johnny-cake for tea; and the very bread contains a third part of

The Englishwoman in America 2007

"Just you wait'll Ma gets back; she'll stuff you full o 'johnny-cake till we got to scrape you off the wall."

More Than Human Sturgeon, Theodore, 1918-1985 1953

The "old man" has the shakes, so the woman has all to do; throws more wood on the fire and fans it with her apron; cuts rashers of bacon, runs out to the hen-coop and brings in new-laid eggs; mixes a johnny-cake and sets it in a pan upon the embers.

Woman on the American Frontier William Worthington Fowler

She put the ham on the table, and some bubbling coffee, and then, from a hickory board in front of the fire, took off, with a jerk, brown, flaky slices of Virginia johnny-cake.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 51, January, 1862 Various

In addition to the johnny-cake, you can boil it up as mush and eat with syrup or condensed milk and by slicing up the cold mush, if there is any left, you can fry it next day in a spider.

Outdoor Sports and Games Claude H. Miller

If you want to make the kind of bread that has been the standard ration for campers for hundreds of years you must eat johnny-cake or pone.

Outdoor Sports and Games Claude H. Miller

Sage-tea, johnny-cake, fried eggs, and bacon, seasoned with sundry invitations of the hostess to partake freely, and then the travelers are in a mood for rest.

Woman on the American Frontier William Worthington Fowler

So when, after she had passed the hot johnny-cake, seen to it that Father had the biggest pork chop and the mealiest potato, and given him his cup of coffee creamed and sugared just right, Mother got out the letter with the university crest and began to read.

The Witness Grace Livingston Hill Lutz

Where he got it, I don't know, but what he meant was "johnny-cake."

The Little Gold Miners of the Sierras and Other Stories Various