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Definition of Corncakes
1. corncake [n] - See also: corncake
Lexicographical Neighbors of Corncakes
Literary usage of Corncakes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Tales of the Tepee by Edward Everett Dale (1920)
""Besides," said he, "I can eat Rabbit afterward if the honey, corncakes, ...
Sure enough, there were great platters of corncakes, big wooden bowls of honey, ..."
2. Catalogue of a Collection of Objects Illustrating the Folklore of Mexico by Frederick Starr (1899)
"corncakes from the oven!). The makers of mats or petates of Puebla appear to have
no other market than Mexico to dispose of them : thus they all scatter ..."
3. Sunsetby Southern Pacific Company, Southern Pacific Company. Passenger Dept by Southern Pacific Company, Southern Pacific Company. Passenger Dept (1910)
"Their books sell quicker than corncakes, buttered and toasted—simply because they
cheer, and make joy, and kill all blues and browns. ..."
4. The Tree Book: A Popular Guide to a Knowledge of the Trees of North America by Julia Ellen Rogers (1905)
"(Of course the shells went to the bottom of the pot,) The "hickory milk," strained
of its shell fragments and thickened with meal, made corncakes fit for a ..."
5. The Works of Theodore Roosevelt by Theodore Roosevelt (1889)
"... hominy and corncakes, and a cool drink made from honey and water,21 besides
another made from fermented corn, which tasted much like cider.22 They ..."
6. Baptist Missionary Magazine by American Baptist Foreign Mission Society (1904)
"Each coolie carries his own supply of food in the form of dry corncakes, made of
cornmeal and cold water mixed and baked on a fire of coals. ..."
7. Mexico, Aztec, Spanish and Republican: A Historical, Geographical, Political by Brantz Mayer (1852)
"His food, purchased at the corner of a street from one of the peripatetic cooks,
consists of a few tortillas or corncakes, steeped in a pan of Chili peppers ..."
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