Johnny Cakes are cornbread shaped like pancakes. This is a very basic and very old recipe. I learned how to make them from my grandmother.
1/2 cup plain cornmeal
1/4 teaspoon salt
2/3 cup boiling water
Shortening for greasing the skillet
Mix the cornmeal and salt in a bowl. Pour the boiling water over the cornmeal and stir. Let the mixture stand for about five minutes. If the mixture is too thick to spread in the pan, add one to two tablespoons of water.
Heat a lightly greased skillet or griddle. Pour the mixture into the skillet. You can make small Johnny cakes or one large one.
Cook over medium heat for about 5 minutes.
Super Bowl Sausage Pizza
Top 12” pizza crust w/ Tomato Sauce recipe. Scatter over Italian Sausage pieces, then grated mozzarella, Gruyere, Romano cheese to edges. Brown 450 deg 8-12 min.
ITALIAN SAUSAGE: Saute almost done 6-8 min 4 oz ground Italian sausage (skin removed). Add a few fennel seeds for extra punch.
TOMATO SAUCE TOPPING Saute soft 3-4 min tbl heated olive oil, 5 coarse-chopped gar/cl. Off heat stir in 3 tbl tomato sauce, tsp ea dried oregano, dried basil, fennel seeds. Add tomato sauce as needed to cover pizza crust.