Pone is to
bread
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Definition of "
Pone" from
The Free Dictionary
A staple of the early American colonies from New England southward to Virginia was
pone, a bread made by Native Americans from flat cakes of cornmeal dough baked in ashes.
Pone is one of several Virginia Algonquian words (including
hominy and
tomahawk) borrowed into the English of the Atlantic seaboard. The word
pone, usually in the compound
cornpone, is now used mainly in the South, where it means cakes of cornbread baked on a griddle or in hot ashes
as the Native Americans originally cooked it.
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It's mainley a "
southern or apalachian thing".