johnny cake

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johnny cake (plural johnny cakes)

  1. (Canada, US, Australia, New Zealand, colloquial) Alternative form of johnnycake (type of basic cornbread)
    • 1922, Katherine Mansfield, “The Doll's House”, in Selected Stories, Oxford, published 2002, page 353:
      The little girls sat under the pines eating their thick mutton sandwiches and big slabs of johnny cake spread with butter.
    • 1987, Ida West, “Pride Against Prejudice”, in Heiss & Minter, editor, Macquarie PEN Anthology of Aboriginal Literature, Allen & Unwin, published 2008, page 108:
      The women were good cooks. They used to cook bread, damper and johnny cake in bakers.