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Definition of Drop biscuit
1. Noun. Biscuit made from dough with enough milk that it can be dropped from a spoon.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Drop Biscuit
Literary usage of Drop 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)
"Virginia drop biscuit. Add to eight eggs, beaten very light, three-quarters of
a pound ... drop biscuit. Take cream and sour milk, or sour milk and butter, ..."
2. The Virginia Housewife: Or, Methodical Cook by Mary Randolph (1838)
"TO MAKE drop biscuit. BEAT eight eggs very light, add to them twelve ounces of
flour, and one pound of sugar; when perfectly light, drop them on tin sheets, ..."
3. Fruit Recipes: A Manual of the Food Value of Fruits and Nine Hundred by Riley Maria Fletcher Berry (1907)
"... drop biscuit OR SCONES Where drop biscuit or scones are wished drop the dough
by the spoonful (size desired) on to well greased pan— instead of rolling ..."
4. Better Meals for Less Money by Mrs Marietta McPherson Greenough (1917)
"... cooked meat cut % teaspoon onion juice in inch pieces 1 teaspoon Worcestershire
1 can tomatoes drained sauce Salt and pepper Quick drop biscuit (see No. ..."
5. Lessons in Cookery by Frances Elizabeth Stewart (1918)
"... beaten 4 t. butter or a substitute, melted Milk or other liquid, enough to
moisten to the consistency of drop-biscuit dough It. salt Other seasonings to ..."
6. A Text-book of Cooking by Carlotta Cherryholmes Greer (1915)
"DIVISION ELEVEN QUICK BREADS: SOFT DOUGHS LESSON LXXIV METHOD OF MIXING FAT IN
QUICK BREADS ; drop biscuit Mixing Fat. — What method is used in mixing the ..."
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