BISKUIT, OR BISCUIT, a kind of bread prepared by the confectioners, of fine flour, eggs, and sugar, and rose or orange water; or of flower, eggs, and sugar, with aniseeds, and citron peel, baked again and again in the oven, in tin or paper moulds. There are divers sorts of biskuit; as seed-biskuit, fruit-biskuit, long-biskuit, round-biskuit, Naples-biskuit, sponge-biskuit, &c.
BISKUIT, OR BISCUIT
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