Nocake

Quick meaning: Nocake is a noun meaning Indian corn parched and pounded into meal (powder), used as food by Native Americans, sometimes mixed with maple sugar.

Meaning

Indian corn parched and pounded into meal (powder), used as food by Native Americans, sometimes mixed with maple sugar.

Example Sentences

This preparation of corn was called nocake or nookick. [...] It was held to be the most nourishing food known, and in the smallest and most condensed form.

A ſmall pouch of parched corn, ground or rather pounded into meal, and called Nuichicke, which is well enough tranſlated Nocake, would ſupport them ſeveral days in their travelling, when they could get no other proviſions; [...]

It was some time before the white man learned the red man's secret—Nocake. Undoubtedly the first American food concentrate was Nocake. Simple to prepare, easy to carry, always dependable, it was his dependence in the forests, on the trails, even on the warpath.

Nookhick or nokehick, the Indian name of the meal of parched corn, was pronounced nocake, by the English, who sometimes hired Indian women to prepare it for them. Winthrop says the parched corn was "turned almost inside outward, and was white and floury." It must have resembled our parched popcorn.

Synonyms for nocake

Depending on context, synonyms include nokehick, nokehike, rokeag, yokeag.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include corn-dodger, johnnycake, corndodger, asham, pone, journeycake.

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