A coarse cake of maize flour, originally baked on the blade of a hoe.
〈美〉锄头玉米饼（因原先置于锄板上烘烤而得名）
Example sentencesExamples
Mouthwatering bread pudding, hoecakes, groundnut stew and sassafras tea are just a few.
He baked hoecakes for the kids in a skillet over an open fire.
Three hours later, two steaks, seven hoecakes, five cups of coffee and a huge plate of beans later, he stepped out of Mary's place, contented for the first time in well over a month.
During the colonial period, heavy breakfast meals of hoecakes and molasses were prepared to fuel the slaves for work.
Definition of hoecake in US English:
hoecake
nounˈhōkāk
US
A coarse cake made of cornmeal, originally baked on the blade of a hoe.
〈美〉锄头玉米饼（因原先置于锄板上烘烤而得名）
Example sentencesExamples
Mouthwatering bread pudding, hoecakes, groundnut stew and sassafras tea are just a few.
During the colonial period, heavy breakfast meals of hoecakes and molasses were prepared to fuel the slaves for work.
He baked hoecakes for the kids in a skillet over an open fire.
Three hours later, two steaks, seven hoecakes, five cups of coffee and a huge plate of beans later, he stepped out of Mary's place, contented for the first time in well over a month.