(Maryland) Beaten Biscuit (1854)

[Beverly Flanigan]

This is still a common term, isn't it?  for baking powder biscuits, I assume?

At 12:57 AM 4/25/2003 -0400, you wrote:
>    DARE has 1877 for "beaten biscuit," also called "Maryland beaten
> biscuit" or "beat biscuit."  There's a good map.
>    The Gerritsen Collection has "beat biscuit" in a shrimp recipe in the
> CAROLINA HOUSEWIFE, but I don't think it applies.
>