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Definition of Biscuits
1. biscuit [n] - See also: biscuit
Lexicographical Neighbors of Biscuits
Literary usage of Biscuits
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"biscuits are made by a rapid and con- t^nuous process \ they can be preserved a long
... The manufacture of biscuits is now conducted on a very large scale, ..."
2. Pharmaceutical Journal by Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain (1852)
"Ten kilogrammes of bones will yield three kilogrammes of dry gelatine. These three
kilogrammes of gelatine will serve to prepare 300 gelatine biscuits. ..."
3. Free Trade Versus Fair Trade by Thomas Henry Farrer Farrer (1885)
"biscuits. biscuits. 1° the following chapter I have dealt at length with the
subject of sugar. But two recent incidents may here be mentioned. ..."
4. A New System of Domestic Cookery: Formed Upon Principles of Economy and by Maria Eliza Ketelby Rundell (1824)
"Roll it thin, and cut it into round biscuits: prick them full of holes with a
... Plain and very crisp biscuits. Make a pound of flour, the yolk of an egg, ..."
5. Nutrition and clinical dietetics by Herbert Swift Carter, Paul Edward Howe, Howard Harris Mason (1917)
"Muffins are similar to biscuits; they usually contain egg in addition to the other
... Rolls, biscuits and muffins are often referred to as indigestible. ..."
6. Modern Cookery, in All Its Branches: Reduced to a System of Easy Practice by Eliza Acton (1845)
"THE COLONEL'S biscuits. Mix a slight pinch of salt with some fine sifted flour;
make it into a very smooth paste with good cream, and bake the biscuits ..."
7. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and ...Encyclopedias and dictionaries (1910)
"In the United Stales of America biscuits of this kind are usually 'called ...
For biscuits flour strength is not such a desideratum, and as a matter of fact ..."
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