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A biscuit ( /ˈbɪskɨt/) is a baked, edible, and commonly flour-based food-product. The term is used to apply to two distinctly different products in North America and the Commonwealth Nations.
The modern-day confusion in the English language around the word "biscuit" is created by its etymology.
The Middle French word bescuit is derived from the Latin words bis (twice) and coquere, coctus (to cook, cooked), and, hence, means "twice-cooked". This is because biscuits were originally cooked in a twofold process: first baked, and then dried out in a slow oven.
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.
However, the Dutch language from around 1703 had adopted the word koekje, a language diminutive of cake, to have a similar meaning for a similar hard, baked product. This may be related[citation needed] to the Russian or Ukrainian translation, where "biscuit" has come to mean "sponge cake".
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Keywords: based-on-novel, black-man, british, building-raft, catholic-priest, death, england, english, flashback, hospital