FW: Johnny cakes

[Cohen, Gerald Leonard]

Here's an item I received from  the 19c. baseball discussion group. I don't have DARE, OED, etc. handy, and so maybe this is already treated there.

Gerald Cohen

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> From:         Frederick Ivor-Campbell
> Reply To:     19cBB at yahoogroups.com
> Sent:         Tuesday, September 14, 2004 1:46 PM
> To:   19cBB at yahoogroups.com
> Subject:      Re: [19cBB] 1860s Ballpark Food
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> In Rhode Island, "Jonny (Johnny) cakes" are flat pancakes
> made of ground white corn (not yellow corn, please), an
> ancient (and current) treat whose name some think is a
> corruption of "journey cakes," food that served well for
> journeys. There's no way of knowing, I suppose, what they
> were in Brooklyn, or whether there is any connection
> between jonny cakes and "jonalized cakes."
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> Fred Ivor-Campbell
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