10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «NOCAKE»
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America's Founding Food: The Story of New England Cooking
description of a form of native corn cookery in which corn was turned into meal
not hefore it was cooked, as in the Gookin account ahove, hut rather after it was
cooked: "the hest of their victuals for their journey is Nocake, (as they call it)
which ...
Keith W. F. Stavely, Kathleen Fitzgerald, 2004
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Race, Nation, & Empire in American History: Easyread Super ...
the rape of a white woman, Hannah Cornell, by Joseph Nocake. Nocake had
been identified as an Indian when he was warned out of Providence as a person
of “bad fame and reputation” four years earlier. This was not a mistake; the name
...
3
Dictionary of Americanisms: A Glossary of Words and Phrases ...
Nocake. An Indian word still used in some parts of New England. If their
imperious occasions cause the Indians to travel, the best of their victuals for their
journey is nocake (as they call it), which is nothing but Indian corn parched in the
hot ...
John Russell Bartlett, 1860
4
Tribe, Race, History: Native Americans in Southern New ...
Four men served seven terms: Gideon Ammons, Joshua Nocake (or Noka),
Joseph Stanton, and Gideon Watson; one (Samuel Nocake) served five terms;
and three (Henry Champlain, Brister Michael, and Benjamin Thomas) each
served four ...
5
The Skulking Way of War: Technology and Tactics Among the ...
Each man on a military expedition carried a bag of powdered, dry corn called “
nocake.” Roger Williams said that “with this ready provision, and their bows and
arrows, are they ready for war, and travel at an hour's warning.” The durable and
...
6
Pierce's Register: Register of the Certificates Issued by ...
... William Nobles, Benjamin. . . Nobles, Drury Nobles, Francis Nobles, Gideon
Nobles, Hezekiah Nobles, Isaac Nobles, Issac Nobles, John Nocake, Gideon
Nocake, Gideon Nichols, John Nock, Jonathan Noe, John Noe, John Noe, John ...
United States. War Department. Pay Department, 1915
7
Indians and English: Facing Off in Early America
On their travels Indians carried cornmeal, which was mixed with water when they
needed to eat. William Wood found this Nocake dry eating: "If it be in Winter, and
Snow be on the ground, they can eate when they please, stopping Snow after ...
Karen Ordahl Kupperman, 2000
8
O Brave New Words!: Native American Loanwords in Current English
In his text and list, he introduced four novel Indian loanwords: nocake, cornmeal
dried and pounded into a powder — Algonquian, akin to Narragansett nokehick,
parched corn- meal; Wood wrote, "The best of their victuals for their journey is ...
After a time the settlers thought of baking this coarse meal into a small cake,
which they called nocake. By !745 hoecake began to show up in American
writings, and nocake declined in popularity. Is hoecake a changed form of
nocake?
Mitford McLeod Mathews, 1959
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The Journal of Home Economics
And, furthermore, they learned the virtues of "nocake." The term "nocake" was a
corruption of the Massachuset word noohkik (nokehick being the closely similar
Narraganset form). Nocake was made of selected Indian corn parched in hot ...
NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «NOCAKE»
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Nocake and gawped weren't found, although I suspect gawped, akin to gaped. Dandled meant “to move (as a baby) up and down in one's arms ... «Belleville Intelligencer, Jul 12»
