Hoecake

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Hoecake is a type of cornbread made of cornmeal, salt and water, which is very thin in texture, and fried in cooking oil in a skillet. It became known as "hoecake" because field hands often cooked it on a shovel or hoe held to an open flame.[1]

[edit] Fiction

In Jean Fritz's children's book George Washington's Breakfast the protagonist finds out that George Washington may have eaten hoecakes for breakfst

[edit] Reference

  1. ^ Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (1948). Cross Creek. ISBN 0-684-81879-5. 

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