journey cake vs hoecake

journey cake and hoecake both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
journey cake	Yes	No	No	No
hoecake	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, hoecake is a hyponym of journey cake; that is, hoecake is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than journey cake:

journey cake: cornbread usually cooked pancake-style on a griddle (chiefly New England)
hoecake: thin usually unleavened johnnycake made of cornmeal; originally baked on the blade of a hoe over an open fire (southern)

Other hyponyms of journey cake include Shawnee cake.

journey cake (noun)	hoecake (noun)
cornbread usually cooked pancake-style on a griddle (chiefly New England)	thin usually unleavened johnnycake made of cornmeal; originally baked on the blade of a hoe over an open fire (southern)