soda biscuit

noun

a biscuit having soda and sour milk or buttermilk as leavening agents.
soda cracker.

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Origin of soda biscuit

An Americanism dating back to 1820–30

Words nearby soda biscuit

sod house, sod off, sod's law, soda, soda ash, soda biscuit, soda bread, soda cracker, soda fountain, soda jerk, soda lake
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Example sentences from the Web for soda biscuit

  • In a little grove of trees back of the ice-house we sat down and made our supper of bananas and soda-biscuit.

    The Believing Years|Edmund Lester Pearson

British Dictionary definitions for soda biscuit

soda biscuit

noun

a biscuit leavened with sodium bicarbonate
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