brown biscuit

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a kind of whole-wheat hardtack.

Quotations

1849

. . . it is not advisable for an exploring-party in these woods to take brown biscuit with them.

<i>c</i>1939

I have stretched my credit to the utmost in procuring salt pork and brown biscuits to support me through the winter.