Not sure if they are exactly the same, or 'hoe cakes', I call them pancakes?
Funny most corn based recipes originate with Native American recipes that we made our own, and the South claims. Johnny cakes were first called Journey cakes, and before that Shawnee Cakes after the tribe in the Tennessee Valley. Even our northern Iroquois tribes had recipes for them. "Rhode Island johnnycake" first appeared in print in 1739.
I get Hodgson Mill stone ground whole grain.
2 cups corn meal
1/4 cup sugar
1-1/2 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp salt (I use 1/4, don't like when they turn out salty)
1-1/2 cups milk
3 tbsp vegetable oil
2 egg whites (I use the whole eggs)
1 tsp vanilla
2 cups blueberries (if you have them)
Fry them up just like pancakes. Makes quite a few.
At least from my one grandmother... I think because she came from a poor family, that had been poor ranchers for generations. For them cornmeal was all they could afford.
I wanna see the ugly showgirl! (sorry, 
I do think they are interesting 
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