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BP-5 Compact Food (also known as a BP-5 biscuit) is a high-calorie, vitamin fortified, compact, compressed and dry emergency food (food ration bar), often used by relief agencies for the emergency feeding of refugees and internally displaced persons.
Water biscuits are baked using only flour and water, without shortening or other fats usually used in biscuit production. They are thin, hard and brittle, and usually served with cheese or wine. This is a list of crackers. A cracker is a baked good typically made from a grain-and-flour dough and usually manufactured in large quantities.
The Abernethy biscuit was invented by surgeon John Abernethy in the 18th century as a digestive improver. [1] Abernethy believed that most diseases were due to disorders in digestion. The Abernethy biscuit is a type of digestive biscuit, a baked good originally designed to be eaten as a support to proper digestion. [2]
In the United States, a biscuit is a variety of baked bread with a firm, dry exterior and a soft, crumbly interior. In Canada it sometimes also refers to this or a traditional European biscuit. It is made with baking powder as a leavening agent rather than yeast, and at times is called a baking powder biscuit to differentiate it from other ...
[8] [n 1] This is because biscuits were originally cooked in a twofold process: first baked, and then dried out in a slow oven. [9] This term was then adapted into English in the 14th century during the Middle Ages, in the Middle English word bisquite, to represent a hard, twice-baked product [10] (see the German Zwieback).
[7] [8] [9] [6] [10] In 2019 Griffin's trademarked the physical shape and appearance of Squiggles biscuits. Because the biscuit shape is a non-conventional trademark (i.e. not a brand word or logo), Griffin's had to prove that consumers associate the shape of the biscuits with the company Griffin's, not the Squiggles brand. [11]
The digestive biscuit is also used as a cracker with cheeses, and is often included in "cracker selection" packets. In the UK, McVitie's digestive is the best selling biscuit, with 80 million packs sold annually, [1] though there are many other popular brands (such as Cadbury’s) as well as supermarkets' own versions. [8]
The biscuits proved more popular than the machines, so Perky moved East and opened his first bakery in Boston, Massachusetts, and then in Worcester, Massachusetts, in 1895, retaining the name of The Cereal Machine Company, and adding the name of the Shredded Wheat Company. Inspired by his observation of a dyspeptic diner blending wheat with ...