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Thread #55224   Message #857295
Posted By: Nigel Parsons
02-Jan-03 - 12:34 PM
Thread Name: BS: Hobbit Question - Food in LOTR
Subject: RE: BS: Hobbit Question - Food in LOTR
Apart from those listed in the link by Guest,

"Twice baked cakes": surely these are biscuits. The dictionary gives :
biscuit: a small thin crisp cake of unleavened dough....[O.Fr. bescoit (mod. biscuit) - L. bis, twice, coquere, coctum, to cook or bake.]