"johnny cake" meaning in English

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          "extra": "type of basic cornbread",
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          "ref": "1922, Katherine Mansfield, “The Doll's House”, in Selected Stories, Oxford, published 2002, page 353",
          "text": "The little girls sat under the pines eating their thick mutton sandwiches and big slabs of johnny cake spread with butter.",
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          "ref": "1987, Ida West, “Pride Against Prejudice”, in Heiss & Minter, editor, Macquarie PEN Anthology of Aboriginal Literature, Allen & Unwin, published 2008, page 108",
          "text": "The women were good cooks. They used to cook bread, damper and johnny cake in bakers.",
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        "Alternative form of johnnycake (“type of basic cornbread”)"
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        "(Canada, US, Australia, New Zealand, colloquial) Alternative form of johnnycake (“type of basic cornbread”)"
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  "pos": "noun",
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          "ref": "1922, Katherine Mansfield, “The Doll's House”, in Selected Stories, Oxford, published 2002, page 353",
          "text": "The little girls sat under the pines eating their thick mutton sandwiches and big slabs of johnny cake spread with butter.",
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        },
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