Definition of Soda biscuit

1. Noun. Very tender biscuit partially leavened with buttermilk and soda.

Exact synonyms: Buttermilk Biscuit
Generic synonyms: Biscuit

Definition of Soda biscuit

1. Noun. a biscuit (cookie), having a breadlike consistency, leavened with soda and buttermilk ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Soda Biscuit

socmen
socs
socspeak
sod a dog
sod all
sod house
sod it
sod off
sod slabs
soda
soda-acid
soda acid
soda ash
soda biscuit (current term)
soda bottle
soda bread
soda can
soda cellulose
soda counter
soda cracker
soda fountain
soda fountains
soda jerk
soda jerker
soda jerks
soda lake
soda lime

Literary usage of Soda biscuit

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Modern Advertising by Earnest Elmo Calkins, Ralph Holden (1905)
"The same house which manufactures soda-biscuit has been able, by advertising, tremendously to increase its output. This increase of output has cut down the ..."

2. Virginia Cookery-book by Mary Stuart Smith (1912)
"soda biscuit.—Golden Loaf of Albemarle.—Brandon Rolls.—Old Maids.—Brown Bread.—Rusks, Nos. and 2.—Apple Bread.—Salt-rising Bread. ..."

3. Common Sense in the Household: A Manual of Practical Housewifery by Marion Harland (1871)
"I have often thought of them since with regretful longing, when set down to so- called " soda-biscuit," marbled with greenish-yellow streaks, and emitting, ..."

4. Philadelphia Cook Book: A Manual of Home Economics by Sarah Tyson Heston Rorer (1886)
"soda biscuit i quart of sifted flour 2 heaping teaspoonfuls of baking- i ... RYE BISCUIT Make same as soda biscuit, using one pint of rye flour and one pint ..."

5. Annual Report of the American Institute of the City of New York (1860)
"origin of soda-biscuit. It is this: "A baker in Medford, Massachusetts, overstaying his ... Soda-biscuit, so termed, were first made by Ephraim Treadwell, ..."

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