Johnnycake or Johnny Cake - A flat cake made from cornmeal, salt, and boiling water or cold milk, usually fried like a griddlecake. Today's johnnycakes often include eggs, oil, and baking powder. Some versions are baked in the oven like cornbread.
Johnnycake; Journey Cake - a classic corn bread unique because the meal is water-ground and made from white sweet corn.
Joint - to cut; to cut into pieces at the joint. Also, a British cut of meat for roasting.
Johnnycake dates back to the early 1700s and may be the original pancake. It's a flattish griddle cake made of cornmeal, salt and either boiling water or cold milk; (strong advocates of both versions exist).
Johnnycake, Johnny Cake, Hoe Cake:
A mixture of cornmeal, salt, and boiling water or cold milk that is shaped into a large patty shape and fried like a griddlecake.
Joint: ...
Johnnycakes: The unleavened cornmeal pancakes served at breakfast haunts. The name's origin is a matter of some dispute as is its spelling: Johnny-cake, johnnycake, Johnnycake and Johnny Cake are frequent variants.
Another type of corn cake, the johnnycake, is thin and unleavened. It is also known as ashcake or corn pone in some regions. Johnnycake is popular on the Eastern seaboard of the United States.
America: Native Americans fry bread, cracklin' bread, funnel cakes, johnnycake
Australia: pikelets
Austrian: palatschinken
British Isles: Scottish Bannocks, English crumpets, oat cakes or biscuits, crempop, yorkshire pudding ...
Learn all about the history of Johnnycakes, Jonnycakes, Journey Cakes, Shawnee Cakes.
Corn bread
Quick bread in which half or more of the flour used is cornmeal. It may be thin and crisp or thick and light. Popular types are hushpuppies, Johnnycakes and spoon bread.
 See also: Oven, Bread, Cake, Water, Cornmeal
  
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