(1) These early American corn breads, including the hoe cakes and johnny cake which attracted praise from Benjamin Franklin were griddle or hearth baked.(2) Served with cooked grits and johnny cake (a type of bread), they are a popular breakfast food.(3) Cornmeal and water or milk, cooked on a griddle, was called ‘ johnny cake .’(4) I've tasted his johnny cakes , flour mixed with salt and water on a fence post and cooked on a sheet of galvanized iron, zinc curling off around the dough.
