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johnny cake

noun

  1. a type of thin flat corn bread baked on a griddle
  2. a thin cake of flour and water paste cooked in the ashes of a fire or in a pan
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Any day is a good time for a johnny cake, cornmeal flatbread topped with smoked whitefish and beads of salmon roe.

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In Hollywood, where the dinner is $75 per person, dishes include: grilled whole lobster with saffron rice; rib-eye with Dungeness crab and béarnaise sauce; and johnny cakes with cured Arctic char and trout roe.

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But there’s also Cruzan rum, “johnny cakes” — delicious fried rolls — and local “jam band” music, which has more beats per minute than just about anything on American radio.

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He made a “johnny cake” board of willow wood to bake bread upon.

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Invited shortly to partake Of venison, milk, and johnny cake, The stranger made a hearty meal, And glances round the room would steal.

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