biscuit bread

[ bis-kit bred ]

/ ˈbɪs kɪt ˌbrɛd /

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noun Chiefly South Midland and Southern U.S.

biscuits or a biscuit: I like biscuit bread more than cornbread for supper.

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Origin of biscuit bread

First recorded in 1400–50; late Middle English

The tasteless bread was transformed into a sweet cake that included ingredients, such as dried fruit and marzipan.
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Against this backdrop, Paul breaking bread with Sharpton may be too much for Republican primary voters to watch or stomach.
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“Ovens using gas cylinders were set up to make bread under bridges, and nursing stations appeared, offering medicines,” he writes.
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For example, Kuwait recently put a limit the allowable amount of sodium in bread to lower blood pressure.
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“I knew Boyfriend would never really have its chance unless it became my bread-and-butter,” she says.
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I tell you, madam, most distinctly and emphatically, that it is bread pudding and the meanest kind at that.'
The Book of Anecdotes and Budget of Fun;|Various
The camp grew still, except for the rough and ready cook pottering about the fire, boiling buffalo-meat and mixing biscuit-dough.
Raw Gold|Bertrand W. Sinclair
That, like the matches, had long ago been used up, and our discoverers were reduced to roasted biscuit-crumbs.
The Giant of the North|R.M. Ballantyne
In Tiefurt we partook of a magnificent collation consisting of a mug of beer, brown bread and sausage!
Music-Study in Germany|Amy Fay
Newhall Street, and a new thoroughfare made in continuation of Bread Street.
Showell's Dictionary of Birmingham|Thomas T. Harman and Walter Showell