OK, I went shopping earlier today, and I saw a cake mix there from Paula Deen, from the Food Channel.

It was called a "ho cake" I swear!

Gee, didn't know OW got their own cakes too! Isn't taking other women's H's enough for them?

Sorry, it just gave me a good laugh when I saw it...


Catgirl

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Hoecake is a type of thin cornbread made of cornmeal, salt, and water, which is baked on a griddle. It became known as "hoecake" because field hands often cooked it on a shovel or hoe held to an open flame. Hoes designed for cotton fields were large and flat with a hole for the long handle to slide through. The blade would be removed and placed over a fire much like a griddle.

In the Southern States of America hoecake may also refer to bread made from flour, oil (or shortening), and buttermilk and then cooked in a round skillet. The mix is the same used for biscuits but because they are baked on top of the stove the taste is significantly different. Though some people may bake the bread instead.

Hoecake is notably the namesake of the cakewalk dance form. During the 19th century, slaveholders would hold dance competitions for their slaves, offering hoecake as a reward to the winner. Then known as the chalk line dance, the form became known as the cakewalk when it rose to prominence with the advent of ragtime music.

The hoecake is also known as the johnny-cake, the Shawnee cake, the ash cake, and the no cake.