| 词汇 | johnnycake |
| 词源 | johnnycake. “New England corn pone” someone has dubbed this flat corn bread once cooked on a board over an open fire. Most scholars agree that no cook named Johnny had a hand in inventing the bread. Johnnycake is usually traced to Shawnee cakes made by the Shawnee Indians, who by Colonial times were long familiar with corn and its many uses in cooking. Not everyone agrees, though, and one popular theory holds that johnnycake is a corruption of journey-cake, which is what early travelers called the long-lasting corn breads that they carried in their saddlebags. However, johnnycake is recorded before jour- neycake in the form of jonikin, “thin, waferlike sheets, toasted on a board . . . eaten at breakfast with butter”; jonikin is still used for griddle cakes on the eastern shore of Maryland. The word apparently progressed from Shawnee cake to jonnikin and johnnycake, and then to journeycake. Probably when people no longer needed to carry the cakes on journeys, johnnycake be- came popular again. |
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