Definition of Buttermilk biscuit

1. Noun. Very tender biscuit partially leavened with buttermilk and soda.

Exact synonyms: Soda Biscuit
Generic synonyms: Biscuit

Literary usage of Buttermilk biscuit

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Improved Housewife: Or Book of Receipts, with Engravings for Marketing by A. L. Webster (1855)
"... mould it with the hand into small cakes, and place them on flat, buttered tins. Bake them, after standing half an hour. 364. buttermilk biscuit. ..."

2. The New England Cook Book by Helen Saunders Wright (1912)
"buttermilk biscuit Take ^ pint of buttermilk, or sour milk, and 1 pint of flour. Rub into the flour a piece of butter half the size of an egg. ..."

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