baking-powder biscuit
- noun
- /ˈbeɪkɪŋˌpaʊdər ˈbɪskɪt/
- US
:
biscocho
- We enjoyed baking-powder biscuits with our breakfast every Sunday.
Examples
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In the dining room, he took coffee and a warm baking powder biscuit laid out on the sideboard by Delphine, the wife of Ford.
Fiction book (1993) -
That said, reading the articles from Buffalo, I realize that I was really lucky that my mother - who was a mother at 17 and never finished high school - knew how to make baking powder biscuits when she couldn't afford bread.
Blog text (13) -
In our home, they were big meals, beginning with some sort of porridge or another, followed by bacon and eggs, and then toast, pancakes, or baking powder biscuits.
Fiction book (1990) -
He was buttering a large baking-powder biscuit; then he spooned honey onto it, and then he rushed it into his mouth before the honey could run down his wrist.
Fiction book (1991) -
Baking Powder Biscuits, called Grandmother's Southern biscuits from Bernard Clayton's New Complete Book of Breads... if you see this book at a yard sale, get it.
Blog text (24) -
She served warm baking-powder biscuits alongside the soup for dinner.
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Grandma's baking-powder biscuits were always light and fluffy, perfect with butter.
Synonyms
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1.0
A small soft round bread roll often eaten with butter
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2.3
A soft, flaky small bread made with buttermilk and often eaten warm
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3.1
A bread made with baking powder or baking soda so it can be baked right away
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3.5
A small soft biscuit you make by dropping dough from a spoon and baking
A soft, light round bread made with baking soda and buttermilk
A small flat baked treat made from dough rolled and cut before baking
A small flat sweet cookie that people eat with tea
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Morphology
baking-powder + biscuit
The phrase is a straightforward noun–modifier composition: 'baking-powder' specifies the type of 'biscuit' (i.e. a biscuit made with baking powder). A B1 learner who knows 'baking', 'powder', and 'biscuit' can reliably infer it refers to a light quick bread leavened with baking powder, so the meaning is directly compositional and cross-linguistically common.
Etymology
Baking-powder biscuit comes from how it is made. Cooks used baking-powder, a powder that makes dough rise quickly, instead of yeast, so the small bread or biscuit was ready quickly and stayed light, which is why the name means a 'quick, light' bread served with meals.