Biscuit (bread) cooking, most often based on ground wheat and warmed with gravy. The biscuit emerged as a distinct food type in the early 19th century, before the American Civil War. Cooks created a cheaply produced addition for their meals that required no yeast, which was expensive and difficult to store. With no leavening agents except the bitter-tasting pearlash available, beaten biscuits were laboriously beaten and folded to incorporate air into the dough which expanded when heated in the oven causing the biscuit to rise. In eating, the advantage of the biscuit over a slice of bread was that it was harder,
Bread (band) Griffin, whom Gates failed to invite after further rising tensions and Griffin's worsening substance abuse troubles. They ended the year with no further plans to record as a group. In 1978 Gates enjoyed success as a solo artist with the hit singles "Goodbye Girl" (#15; from the movie "The Goodbye Girl") and "Took the Last Train" (#30). He then continued to tour with Botts and Knechtel as "David Gates & Bread" and make TV appearances, including a guest shot on "The Hardy Boys Mysteries" which aired in November 1978. The group's 1978 touring line-up once again included Dean Parks for