A fork of Rural Dictionary
Hardly anyone knows what a "ho-cake" really is these days, especially if your not from the south.
A ho cake is cornbread that is made like a pancake. You mix cornmeal and water (some people add spices or cracklins)with a little salt and pepper, then you fry it up in a pan of bacon grease. Hot, crispy, and delicious.
"My grandma makes the best ho cake."
"I'm gonna fry me up some ho cakes to go with my gumbo!"
A southern biscuit like breakfast food made of flour and milk that you either baked like a cake in a cake tin or cook like a pancake then top with butter.
Mama makes the greatest ho cake!
This is the real deal... ho cake was well known in rural south Mississippi. It comes from the melting pot of cultures that makes south Mississippi so unique. Gaulette is the fancier form of ho cake. Ho cake was made on a metal hoe. A very poor person’s food usually consisting of flour, water, and oil but actually yummy. I would imagine anything was added to it that was available, for example, fruit, milk, and/or cornmeal😉