a singular scuit. just one.Ā
an edible cracker with just one side. mathematically impossible and yet here I am monching on it.
āscuitā comes from the french word for ābakeā, ācuireā as bastardized by adoption by the brittish and a few hundred years ābiscuitā meant ātwice-bakedā, originally meaning items like hardtack which were double baked to dry them as a preservative measure long before things like sugar and butter were introduced. if you see a historical doccument use the word ābiscuitā do not be fooled to think ābeing a pirate mustve been pretty cool, they ate nothing but cookiesā - they were made of misery to last long enough to be used in museum displays or as paving stones
ātriscuitā is toasted after the normal biscuit process, thrice baked thus the monoscuit is a cookie thats soft and chewy because it was only baked once, not twice
behold the monoscuit/scuit
Why is this called a biscuit:
when brittish colonists settled in the americas they no longer had to preserve biscuits for storage or sea voyages so instead baked them once and left them soft, often with buttermilk or whey to convert cheap staples/byproducts into filling items to bulk out the meal to make a small amount of greasy meat feed a whole family. considering hardtack biscuits were typically eaten by dipping them in grease or gravy untill they became soft enough to eat without breaking a tooth this was a pretty short leap of ājust dont make them rock hard if im not baking for the armyā but didnt drop the name because its been used for centuries and people forgot its french for ātwice bakedā back in the tudor era, biscuit was just a lump of cooked dough that wasnt leavened bread as far as they cared thus the buttermilk biscuit and the hardtack biscuit existed at the same time. ācookiesā then came to america via german and dutch immigrants as tiny cakes made with butter, sugar/molasses, and eggs before ātea biscuitsā as england knew them due to the new availability of cheap sugar- which is why ābiscuitā and ācookieā are separate items in america but the same item in the UK the evolution of the biscuit has forks on its family tree
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