"hoecake" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From hoe + cake, since it was often cooked on a hoe (a type of pan, not the gardening implement).",
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          "text": "In Jean Fritz's children's book George Washington's Breakfast, the protagonist finds out that George Washington may have eaten hoecakes for breakfast."
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        "(dated, Southern US) A type of cornbread or cornmeal cake, made with water and salt. It was originally baked before the fire or in the ashes on a type of iron pan called a hoe; in modern times, it is fried in cooking oil in a skillet."
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