Biscuit

Biscuit

A biscuit is a flour-based baked food item. Biscuits are typically hard, flat, and unleavened. They are usually sweet and may be made with sugar, chocolate, icing, jam, ginger, or cinnamon. Savoury biscuits are called crackers or biscuits for cheese.

Biscuit (bread)

In the United States and Canada, a biscuit is a variety of quick bread with a firm, dry exterior and a soft, moist, crumbly interior, usually made on the spot for prompt eating. It is made with baking powder or soda as a leavening agent rather than yeast, and at times is called a baking powder biscuit to differentiate it from other types. Biscuits are often served with butter or other condiments, flavored with other ingredients, or combined with other types of food to make sandwiches or other dishes.

biscuit

Noun

1. A small, flat, baked good which is either hard and crisp or else soft but firm; a cookie.
2. A small, usually soft and flaky bread, generally made with baking soda, which is similar in texture to a scone but which is usually not sweet.

Verb

1. To fire (pottery) in a kiln, without a ceramic glaze.
2. To take part in the sport of tubing, riding down a river on an inner tube.