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johnny cake
noun
- a type of thin flat corn bread baked on a griddle
- a thin cake of flour and water paste cooked in the ashes of a fire or in a pan
Example Sentences
Any day is a good time for a johnny cake, cornmeal flatbread topped with smoked whitefish and beads of salmon roe.
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.
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.
He made a “johnny cake” board of willow wood to bake bread upon.
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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