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Definition of Hoecakes
1. hoecake [n] - See also: hoecake
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hoecakes
Literary usage of Hoecakes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. From Cape Cod to Dixie and the Tropics by John Milton Mackie (1864)
"Exactly—hoecakes, and venison steak, and fresh butter." " Hot milk ? " " No; give
me the cold cream. No such cream as this in York, Gusty ! ..."
2. The Siege of Richmond: A Narrative of the Military Operations of Major by Joel Cook (1862)
"The inmates of every negro-hut were besought for " hoecakes;" and when the amazed
... Plaguing the negroes for "hoecakes" was usually the greatest extent of ..."
3. Proceedings ... Annual Convention. (1891)
"... eat it in the form of pork, thereby losing the nutritious proteine, when they
should eat it directly from the cob, or at least in the form of hoecakes. ..."
4. My Southern Friends by James Roberts Gilmore (1863)
"Not a solitary fire slumbered on the bare clay hearths, and not a single darky
stood sentry over the loose pork and neglected hoecakes, or kept at bay the ..."
5. Field, Camp, Hospital and Prison in the Civil War, 1863-1865 by Charles Alfred Humphreys (1918)
"Mrs. Washington is a fine lady and a generous provider, as witness her table
loaded with honey, apple butter, cider, hoecakes, corn cakes, apples, ..."
6. Virginia and Virginians: Eminent Virginians ... History of Virginia from by Robert Alonzo Brock, Virgil Anson Lewis (1888)
"... breakfast usually consisting of two small cups of tea and three or four "hoecakes."
Immediately after breakfast he mounted his horse and made a personal ..."
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