beaten biscuit

American  

noun

Southern U.S.

1. a hard, unleavened biscuit, made to rise by pounding and folding the dough.

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Etymology

Origin of beaten biscuit

An Americanism dating back to 1875–80

Example Sentences

It is pleasant, too, to go fishing, with a dainty, absurd little hat that, although it looks pretty, is about as useful as would be a beaten biscuit pinned to one's tresses.

From The Woman Beautiful or, The Art of Beauty Culture by Stevans, Helen Follett

It was a pleasant house with good board, the sort of cooking you got at home, plenty of gravy on your meat, beaten biscuit for breakfast, and the best coffee in the city.

From The Shadow by Ovington, Mary White

Bessie wondered why this had been sent on her, but she took a couple of boarders at once, she sold sponge-cake and beaten biscuit, she got up classes in bread-making.

From Southern Lights and Shadows by Howells, William Dean

"That's all right," answered Lloyd, tossing the olive stone out on the grass, and helping herself to a beaten biscuit.

From The Little Colonel: Maid of Honor by Barry, Etheldred B. (Etheldred Breeze)

"It's a good thing I had a Southern grandmother," she soliloquized, as she put her beaten biscuit in the Dutch oven and pulled the coals over it.

From The Master-Knot of Human Fate by Meredith, Ellis