Can someone tell me some facts on the history of biscuits?
BISCUIT’S HISTORY According to tradition, biscuits first appeared 10.000 years ago in China, where dry rice pies with sesame and fruits were made. Other old stories mention that the Assyrians used to prepare thin rusks made of barley and wheat dough, which they placed then in clay vases and baked them on embers. Thousands of years later, in an Egyptian tomb dating back to 2.500 BC, we find depictions of workers stirring an oven’s fire, in which biscuits are being baked. Biscuits were initially thought of as a practical, concentrated food, similar to bread, which had the advantages of staying well preserved for a long period of time. It was the hardtack of prehistoric ages. The encyclopedic definition of hardtack is: “… spongy and dry mixture of flour, well resisting to mould”. Along the course of its existence, honey was added to its recipe and it became a special pastry, presenting an impressive variety of kinds and ingredients. In the Greek kitchen of antiquity, we come across pastri
