beaten biscuit

noun

, Southern U.S.

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

Word History and Origins

Origin of beaten biscuit¹

An Americanism dating back to 1875–80

Example Sentences

On this day, between the disks of her beaten biscuit showed the pinkness of sliced ham.

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Remember me to your elderly and amiable handmaiden, whose beaten biscuit I recall with such felicity.

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

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There was beaten biscuit and fried chicken and iced watermelon, and all sorts of good things.

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Fried chicken and sweet potatoes, beaten biscuit and fragrant coffee, had a flavour all their own to Burns that night.

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