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pone noun A baked patty or cake of bread, especially of cornmeal. [DARE labels this term “chiefly South, South Midland”]

1824 (in 1912 Doddridge Notes on Settlement 88) Johnny cake and pone were at the outset of the settlements of the country the only forms of bread in use for breakfast and dinner. 1861 Martin CW Letters (Nov 10) send me A pone of loaf coarn bread & one of wheat bread. 1925 Dargan Highland Annals 26 We didn’t have a dust o' flour, an’ I couldn’t set him down to ponebread an’ him come all the way from Madison to see us. 1939 Hall Coll (Hazel Creek NC) She done her bakin’ in a [Dutch] oven. She baked her cornbread in pones. 1966 Dakin Vocab Ohio River Valley 312 The use of pone = “loaf” (a pone of light-bread) is fairly common among older and rural speakers in Kentucky. 2008 McKinley Bear Mt 76 Now she was ready to bake a “pone” of cornbread in a heavy iron skillet and fry thick slices of streaked fatback bacon.