Trotter Hoecake (Johnny Cake)
When the Native Americans showed the Pilgrims how to cook with maize, they must have taught them to make johnnycake,a dense cornmeal bread whose thick batter is shaped into a flat cake and baked or fried on a griddle. Johnnycake, also called journey cake andShawnee cake, is a New England specialty, especially in Rhode Island, where johnnycakes are often made of white Indian corn called flint corn.Outside New England the name johnnycake is best known in the Upper Midwest, but the food itself is most popular in the South and South Midlandstates, where it is known as ashcake, batter bread, battercake, corn cake, cornpone, or hoecake.
Our version is mixed with trotter meat essentially making it a meat and corn pancake. Yum. two of these are plated with bosc pears and drizzled with braising liquid that has been reduced with honey. The dish is then topped with a sunny side egg.
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