biscuit

The Sailor's Word-Book

[i.e. bis coctus, or Fr. bis-cuit].


Bread intended for naval or military expeditions is now simply flour well kneaded, with the least possible quantity of water, into flat cakes, and slowly baked. Pliny calls it panis nauticus; and of the panis militaris, he says that it was heavier by one-third than the grain from which it was made.

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