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Yum!  Looking for some authentic Southern style home cooking?  Then Granny Cantrell’s is the place for you, just West of the Panama City Mall, in the Coronado Village on 23rd Street.  Our Address is 103 W. 23rd Street in Panama City.  Check out what you’re missing in family dining at affordable prices, there is something for everyone.

 

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OMG!  Granny Cantrell’s Mac & Cheese is to die for. Can’t wait for my next trip to Granny’s Family Diner in Panama City for some good home southern style cooking and make me happy.

 

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Hoecake

Myth #26: The term “Hoe Cake” refers to the way slaves cooked cornbread in the fields with a hoe.

A reader who volunteers at a historical site writes, “A common statement made by docents is that the cornmeal cakes eaten by slaves are called hoecakes because slaves used their hoes as baking implements when they were out in the fields working. This, however, implies that fires were kept burning in the tobacco fields in order for this cooking to take place. Clarify, please.”

Not a myth–this statement is true. Hoe cakes were cornbread fried in fat or, as the name suggests, cooked over a fire on a large, flat hoe. That doesn’t mean fires were kept burning in the fields, however. Fields were often located far from the slave quarters and rather than trudge back for the noon meal, it must often have been easier to build a small fire at the edge of a field, cook some cornbread, and find a piece of shade to rest and eat. Hoes were flat iron tools and could easily double as a griddle.
According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the term first appears in printed form in 1745. Washington Irving mentions hoe cakes at least twice in his satirical History of New-York (1809): “ . . . the enemy, who were represented as a gigantic, gunpowder race of men, who lived on hoe cakes and bacon, drank mint juleps and apple toddy, and were exceedingly expert at boxing, biting, gouging, tar and feathering, and a variety of other athletic accomplishments, which they had borrowed from their cousins German and prototypes the Virginians, to whom they have ever borne considerable resemblance.”
From History Myths Debunked 19 April, 2011