ANALYSIS AND

INTERPRETATIONS
History
The first evidence of the modern day
biscuit can be traced to the 16th century
with the arrival of the Mughals. ... Khari,
the layered flaky biscuit, also called fayn,
is said to have come with the butter loving
Persian-Iranians who also made a similar
journey and carried baked goods with
them.

Ship’s biscuit display in kronborg , Denmark, c.1852

The biscuit that was prepared earlier was
a cake that was re-inserted in the oven
after the cake was removed from the tin.
The item was named as 'biscuit' because it
means 'an item that is cooked twice'
according to French. The biscuit was
originated by the French. The biscuit that
was prepared then was very hard. The
biscuit then become popular among the
warriors and navigators who went for
their journey. The biscuits became very
popular during the rule of King Lious XIV
and they were called stone bread. Then
biscuits were prepared in order to provide
nutrition. These biscuits were known as
animalized biscuits. By the 19th century
travelers used biscuits that were cakes in
hard form. Later on light and crunchy
biscuits were introduced to make it easier
to chew for the consumers. People
popularly in United States used biscuits
during meals. Then later on beaten
biscuits became very popular. The hard
biscuits were beaten to make them softer.
Anyhow biscuits meant different for
different nations. In the United States
biscuits are the soft cakes or breads. For
Britishers it is a product from the flour
that is made sweet. Biscuit as a whole can
mean different things to different people.
It may mean a cake that is made hard or a
substance that is made hard made of flour
or a bread that is removed from the oven
and rolled and cut into pieces. Initially the
biscuit was used by the traveling because
it was a hard substance made of
preservatives to avoid perishing. The
people who traveled by ships and the
army soldiers used this food. It was highly
nutritious as it contained nutrition like
cereals that was processed with flour. The
substance was prepared hard because it
would survive under any temperature.
These biscuits were used during the
Spanish Armada in 1588. Earlier the
biscuits were cooked out of bread by
placing in the oven twice to serve it.
Earlier biscuits that was available at a
reasonable price. Earlier biscuits were
recommended for the health purposes
and hence most of them were not sweet
as recommended by physicians.Then later
on in the 7th century, the Parsis who had
learnt the art of cooking mixed a number
of ingredients in the flour such as butter,
cream, honey to make it tastier. One of
the Armenian monk in 992 from Europe
prepared a substance called gingerbread.
This items was sold in the market with
high price. Then the Crusaders who learnt
the art of cooking spicy breads spread the
trend into the entire northern parts of
Europe. Then in the medival period
biscuits were items that were sweet
substances that were prepared from the
bread by inserting in the oven. During the
rule of King Richard they were the
substances that were prepared by mixing
flour such as barley, rye and bean flour.