Beaten Biscuit
Beaten biscuits are a Southern food from the United States, dating from the 19th century. They differ from a regular American soft-dough biscuits, in that they are more like hardtack. In New England they are called "sea biscuits", as they were staples aboard whaling ships.
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Famous quotes containing the words beaten and/or biscuit:
“You ask what I have found and far and wide I go,
Nothing but Cromwell’s house and Cromwell’s murderous crew,
The lovers and the dancers are beaten into the clay,
And the tall men and the swordsmen and the horsemen where are they?”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)
““He is so polite!”MYes, he is always prepared with a biscuit for Cerberus and is so timid that he assumes everyone is Cerberus, even you and me—that is his “politeness.””
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)