OT: What is a Hoe Pan?

It's used to cook hoe cakes, of course.....

 
Gregg and Frank are right. Read HERE.

Blair

 

My grandmother made 'em every now and then. My grandfather grew the corn and let it dry still in the husk and on the cob. Corn lasts a long time this way.

They raised free range chickens and fed 'em 'chops' which was nothing more than hard corn ground up using their hand-cranked grinder. The larger pieces (chops) would be fed to the chickens. The rest would be sifted down to corn meal size and saved until there was enough to make some hoe cakes.

Grandmother would just let the meal soak on the wood stove (always hot) until the mush was thick. Then she would take a handful, ball it up, mash it slightly flat and place it in a hot skillet with plenty of bacon grease.

Us 'men folk' would take some wrapped up in a cloth wherever we were going and they would be quite tasty all day. However, we might have to stop at a pond or creek to get a drink of water. They were pretty salty.

If we were camping, like we sometimes did while searching for our free-range cattle, we would build a fire and set the hoe cakes on a hot stone. Really good eat'n by then.

Come morning, if we still had some left we would have 'em for breakfast. Nothing quite like a hot hoe cake on a chilly morning in the woods.

Try 'em, you'll like 'em.

As a matter of fact, my cornbread omelet starts out with a variation of a hoe cake.

Spring "Hoe Cakes Was Here Long Before Columbus" Chicken
Spring Texas USA