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,
Crustless bread Crustless bread Crustless bread is bread without crusts. Panko is made from such a bread, which is produced by passing an electric current through the dough. British food group RHM manufacture a crustless bread targeted at children called Hovis Invisible Crust, which is produced by baking the bread at low temperature. Other bread manufacturers have released crustless bread, with the crusts removed. Measurable nutritional loss can result from omitting crusts from bread. Bread crusts are higher in the antioxidant pronyl-lysine than the inner portion of the bread. Crusts from darker breads, in particular, contain higher amounts of this antioxidant, which