Biscuit

In a large bowl combine flour, sugar, baking powder and salt together. Cut butter into mixture until it begins to look like cornmeal. Make a well with flour mixture and slowly add milk into the middle. Knead dough with your fingers and add milk when necessary. 1 biscuit: 153 calories, 7g fat (4g saturated fat), 18mg cholesterol, 437mg sodium, 20g carbohydrate (1g sugars, 1g fiber), 3g protein. Every editorial product is independently selected, though we may be compensated or receive an affiliate commission if you buy something through our links. Biscuit (also known as bisque) refers to any pottery that has been fired in a kiln without a ceramic glaze.This can be a final product such as biscuit porcelain or unglazed earthenware (often called terracotta) or, most commonly, an intermediate stage in a glazed final product. A small cake of shortened bread leavened with baking powder or soda.

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bis·cuit

(bĭs′kĭt)n.

Old Fashioned Biscuits From Scratch

pl.bis·cuits

1. A small cake of shortened bread leavened with baking powder or soda.

2. Chiefly British

b. A cookie.

3. A hard, dry cracker given to dogs as a treat or dietary supplement.

4. A thin, often oblong, waferlike piece of wood, glued into slots to connect larger pieces of wood in a joint.

6. pl.biscuit Clay that has been fired once but not glazed. Also called bisque².

[Middle English bisquit, from Old French biscuit, from Medieval Latin bis coctus : Latin bis, twice; see dwo- in Indo-European roots + Latin coctus, past participle of coquere, to cook; see pek^w- in Indo-European roots.]

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biscuit

(ˈbɪskɪt) n

1. (Cookery) Brit a small flat dry sweet or plain cake of many varieties, baked from a dough. US and Canadian word: cookie

2. (Cookery) USandCanadian a kind of small roll similar to a muffin

3. (Colours)

b. (as adjective): biscuit gloves.

4. (Ceramics) Also called: bisque earthenware or porcelain that has been fired but not glazed

5. take the biscuit slang to be regarded (by the speaker) as the most surprising thing that could have occurred

[C14: from Old French, from (pain) bescuit twice-cooked (bread), from bes bis + cuire to cook, from Latin coquere]

Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014

bis•cuit

(ˈbɪs kɪt)
n.

1. a small, soft, raised bread, usu. leavened with baking powder or soda.

2. Chiefly Brit.

b. a cookie.

4. Also called bisque. unglazed earthenware or porcelain after firing.

[1300–50; Middle English bysquyte < Middle French biscuit, literally, twice cooked]

biscuit

Noun	1.	biscuit - small round bread leavened with baking-powder or soda quick bread - breads made with a leavening agent that permits immediate baking rolled biscuit - biscuit made from dough rolled and cut drop biscuit - biscuit made from dough with enough milk that it can be dropped from a spoon baking-powder biscuit - leavened with baking powder buttermilk biscuit, soda biscuit - very tender biscuit partially leavened with buttermilk and soda hardtack, pilot biscuit, pilot bread, sea biscuit, ship biscuit - very hard unsalted biscuit or bread; a former ship's staple
2.	biscuit - any of various small flat sweet cakes (`biscuit' is the British term) cake - baked goods made from or based on a mixture of flour, sugar, eggs, and fat tea biscuit, teacake - flat semisweet cookie or biscuit usually served with tea butter cookie - cookie containing much butter almond cookie, almond crescent - very rich cookie containing ground almonds; usually crescent-shaped brownie - square or bar of very rich chocolate cake usually with nuts ginger nut, ginger snap, gingersnap, snap - a crisp round cookie flavored with ginger macaroon - chewy cookie usually containing almond paste ladyfinger - small finger-shaped sponge cake anise cookie - cookie made without butter and flavored with anise seed molasses cookie - very spicy cookies sweetened partially with molasses oreo, oreo cookie - chocolate cookie with white cream filling raisin-nut cookie - cookie filled with a paste of raisins and nuts refrigerator cookie - dough formed into a roll and chilled in the refrigerator then sliced and baked fruit bar - cookies containing chopped fruits either mixed in the dough or spread between layers of dough then baked and cut in bars sugar cookie - cookies sprinkled with granulated sugar chocolate chip cookie, Toll House cookie - cookies containing chocolate chips fortune cookie - thin folded wafer containing a maxim on a slip of paper gingerbread man - gingerbread cut in the shape of a person granola bar - cookie bar made of granola Britain, Great Britain, U.K., UK, United Kingdom, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland - a monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles; divided into England and Scotland and Wales and Northern Ireland; `Great Britain' is often used loosely to refer to the United Kingdom

biscuit

noun

Biscuits

abernethy, bannock (Scot.), Bath Oliver, bourbon, brandy snap, captain's biscuit, caramel wafer, chocolate digestive, cookie (chiefly U.S. & Canad.), cracker, cracknel, cream cracker, crispbread, digestive, Empire biscuit, fairing, farl, flapjack, Florentine, garibaldi, gingerbread man, ginger nut or ginger snap, graham cracker (U.S.), hardtack, ship's biscuit, pilot biscuit, or sea biscuit, Jaffa cake (trademark), langue de chat, lebkuchen, love letter, macaroon, matzo, oatcake, petit four, pretzel, ratafia, rich tea, rusk, shortbread, shortcake, soda biscuit, sweetmeal biscuit or digestive, Tararua biscuit (N.Z.), tea biscuit, wafer, water biscuit

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sušenkavdoleksuchar

keksz

mjúkt matarbrauîòurrkaka; sandkakasmákaka, kex; tvíbaka

ビスケット

bandelėbiskvitinis pyragaitissausainis

biskvīta kūciņabiskvīts, sauss cepumsbulciņamaizīte

biskvitsuchár

kex

biscuit

[ˈbɪskɪt]

A.N (Brit) → galletaf (US) → magdalenaf
that takes the biscuit! → ¡eso es el colmo!

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

biscuit

[ˈbɪskɪt]n

(British) → biscuitm
to take the biscuit (British) [action] → être le bouquet

(US) → petit painm au laitbiscuit tin n(British) → boîtef à biscuits

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

biscuit

(Brit) → Keksm; (= dog biscuit) → Hundekuchenm; that takes/you take the biscuit! (Brit inf) → das übertrifft alles or (negatively) → schlägt dem Fass den Boden aus

(= porcelain: also biscuit-ware) → Biskuitporzellannt

adj (colour) → beige

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

Biscuits And Gravy

biscuit

[ˈbɪskɪt]n (Brit) → biscotto (Am) → panino al latte
to take the biscuit (fam) → essere assolutamenteincredibile

biscuit

(ˈbiskit) noun

1. (American ˈcookie) a crisp, sweet piece of dough baked in small flat cakes. beskuitjie بَسْكوت бисквита bolacha sušenka der Keks kiks; småkage μπισκότοgalleta küpsis بیسکویت keksi biscuitביסקוויט बिस्कुट keks, kolačić aprósütemény biskuit smákaka, kex; tvíbaka biscotto ビスケット (미국) 쿠키 sausainis biskvīts, sauss cepums biskut koekjekjeks, småkakeherbatnik bolacha biscuit печенье sušienka keks biskvit kex, biskvi (อเมริกา) คุกกี้ bisküvi; kurabiye 餅乾 сухе печиво پسکٹ bánh bích quy 饼干

2. a similar savoury flat cake. soutbeskuitjie بَسْكوت бисквита biscoito suchar der Kuchen småkage αλμυρό μπισκότο galleta kook کلوچه pikkuleipä gâteau sec עוגיה, עוגייה बिस्कुट नुमा केक keks keksz kue pipih þurrkaka; sandkaka biscotto クラッカー 쿠키와 유사한 케이크 biskvitinis pyragaitis biskvīta kūciņa biskut crackersmåkakebiszkopt كلچه biscoito бисквитный пирог suchár piškot keks småkaka คุกกี้ gevrek, peksimet 鹹薄餅 коржик کیک کی ایک قسم bánh dẹt nhỏ 软烤饼

3. (American) a small soft round cake. koekie خُبْزات شَطائِر кръгла торта tortinha vdolek das weiche Brötchen bolle; scone πιτάκι bizcocho küpsis کلوچه pulla petit gâteau לחמניה, לחמנייה मुलायम गोल केक kolačić lángos kue kecil mjúkt matarbrauð dolcetto 丸パン (미국) 작고 부드러운 케이크 bandelė maizīte; bulciņa biskut koekjebolle, scone biszkopcik کلچه queque бисквитная булочка biskvit kolaček keks slät bulle (อเมริกา) เค้าชนิดหนึ่งก้อนกลมเล็ก kek (美國)小圓餅 бісквіт چھوٹا نرم گول کیک bánh bơ tròn 小软饼（美），小点心

biscuit

→ بَسْكَوِيت sušenka kiksKeksμπισκότοgalleta keksibiscuit keks

Biscuit Love

biscotto

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ビスケット 비스킷biscuitkjeks

Biscuitville

herbatnikbolachaпеченье kex ขนมปังกรอบbisküvi bánh quy饼干

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