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) edition hardback titled "Bread: A Sweet Surrender" (originally called "Manna from Heaven: The Musical Rise & Fall of Bread"). It was written with the assistance of many surviving family members and musical colleagues of the band, along with exclusive interviews with founding member Robb Royer. A paperback/soft-cover edition appeared during 2017. The following year saw Royer publish his own memoirs, "The View From Contessa", featuring tales from his own varied career, available as an eBook via Amazon. Bread (band) Bread was an American soft rock band from Los Angeles, California. They placed 13 songs on the "Billboard" Hot 100 chart