Fact 86: Where does the word biscuit come from?

Fact 86: Where does the word biscuit come from?

This answer may surprise you to know that the word came to England from the French and is a Latin word basically meaning twice baked this comes from the french and Latin word panis biscoctus, panis means basically in the shape of a loaf\or just bread this is french and biscoctus means twice-cooked from the Latin word bis meaning twice again, and the Latin word coctus meaning cooked or baked. This is because the biscuit were originally baked/cooked twice, (my guess is that the biscuit were probably cooked on both sides by being flipped but honestly I don't know).

The word biscuit dates back to the Middle Ages (some time in about the 14th century).