johnny cake in English
noun
1
a flat cornmeal cake typically baked or fried on a griddle.
Served with cooked grits and johnny cake (a type of bread), they are a popular breakfast food.
2
a small, thin unleavened wheat loaf baked in wood ashes.
I've tasted his johnny cakes , flour mixed with salt and water on a fence post and cooked on a sheet of galvanized iron, zinc curling off around the dough.
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1. In most cases the runaway Breadstuff is simpler than a gingerbread man: it’s a “thick, fat pancake” in the earliest printed version (from Germany in 1854), a “wee bunnock” in an early Scottish version, a johnny-cake in a tale from the American South.