hoe cakes

[scone]

 

[Tin cup]

March 31, 1863:
Our bread is usually corn meal, and we mix it up with water and bake it on clap-boards set up before a fire, johny-cake fashion. Then we have flour we mix up a stiff dough and wrap it round the ramrods of our guns, and bake it also before the fire, turning the ramrod continually until the bread is a beautiful brown. We cook our meat in the same manner, or on the coals, or on a stick drove in the ground before the fire. The clap-board is our most important utensil when we have corn-meal and we usually find them where people live. There is no better corn bread to be made than johnny-cake.

William E. Sloan, Co.D 5th Tennessee Cav. CSA

Kevin Dally

 

[donna]

Another excellent recipe from scone. Hoe cakes were much enjoyed by soldiers.

 

[Scooter_B]

March 31, 1863:
Our bread is usually corn meal, and we mix it up with water and bake it on clap-boards set up before a fire, johny-cake fashion. Then we have flour we mix up a stiff dough and wrap it round the ramrods of our guns, and bake it also before the fire, turning the ramrod continually until the bread is a beautiful brown. We cook our meat in the same manner, or on the coals, or on a stick drove in the ground before the fire. The clap-board is our most important utensil when we have corn-meal and we usually find them where people live. There is no better corn bread to be made than johnny-cake.

William E. Sloan, Co.D 5th Tennessee Cav. CSA

Kevin Dally

That will inspire me to make my own johnny-cake, but with modern ways.

 

[Scooter_B]

Now I am getting more hungry.

 

[AshleyMel]

Where did Hoe or Johnny cakes originate from? We did not eat them growing up and I only heard my Nanny make reference to them.

 

[Belle Montgomery]

Where did Hoe or Johnny cakes originate from? We did not eat them growing up and I only heard my Nanny make reference to them.

https://whatscookingamerica.net/History/Johnnycakes.htm

 

[AshleyMel]

https://whatscookingamerica.net/History/Johnnycakes.htm

Oh thank you Belle! They are kinda like hush puppies!

 

[donna]

Bumped some older Hoe Cakes and Johnny Cake Recipes.

 

[JOHN42768]

Interesting short video, thanks