Hang on a minute, doesn't the word "biscuit" mean "twice cooked" in French?

Question

And are they?

Answer 1

yup, biscuit means cooked twice, but i think (not completely sure) that it's italian; biscuits were originally what we think of as crackers today. they baked them twice so that they were really hard and would last forever when sailors would take them to sea. now biscuits refer more to the soft flaky southern bread. i think i prefer the southern kind. : P

hope this helps!

Answer 2

Well almost...

The English to french translation of the word biscuit is...
gâteau sec, gâteau, galette and biscuit. !

If you break down the spelling of the french word biscuit then you get...

bis = a second time or twice... and
cuit = baked, cooked.

hope this helps...

Answer 3

No, actually biscuit is a paste to make:
1) Food like tarts :n the flower they do also potato flower to make it like that.

2)Antique biscuit (sort of non glassed porcelain).
So you see 2 different things but also biscuit.

Answer 4

Apparently it does translate to "twice cooked".
I believe as a previous answer said, it was originally something to do with sailors and it preserved them for longer.

Answer 5

bis·cuit /ˈbɪskɪt/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[bis-kit] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation
–noun 1. a kind of bread in small, soft cakes, raised with baking powder or soda, or sometimes with yeast.
2. Chiefly British. a. a dry and crisp or hard bread in thin, flat cakes, made without yeast or other raising agent; a cracker.
b. a cookie.

3. a pale-brown color.
4. Also called bisque. Ceramics. unglazed earthenware or porcelain after firing.
5. Also called preform. a piece of plastic or the like, prepared for pressing into a phonograph record.
–adjective 6. having the color biscuit.


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[Origin: 1300–50; ME bysquyte < MF biscuit (ML biscoctus), var. of bescuit seamen's bread, lit., twice cooked, equiv. to bes bis1 + cuit, ptp. of cuire < L coquere to cook1]

So yes, it's origin means twice cooked.

Answer 6

Twice baked

Answer 7

Um no, biscuit just means cracker (or sometimes my teacher uses it for cookie)

Answer 8

I used to ask lots of questions on Wednesdays.

Answer 9

why would they be cooked twice

Answer 10

yes