Hoecakes w/Fresh Mozzarella, Tomato + Soybeans

In The Story of Corn, Betty Fussell writes that colonial settlers saw cornmeal batter as “the sad paste of despair,” bemoaning the lack of more refined wheat batters. One time, I had friends over and what I thought was chickpea flour for socca turned out to be cornmeal. I had already mixed equal parts of the flour and water, and it did look exactly like a sad paste. Not