bisquick
Pre-mixed baking mix, generally consisting of flour, a shortening and a leavening agent (for quickly making fresh biscuits, pancakes, dumplings, etc).
Noun
- Pre-mixed baking mix, generally consisting of flour, a shortening and a leavening agent (for quickly making fresh biscuits, pancakes, dumplings, etc).
- Seven at night in Tucson, get some bisquick for the dumplings. Have some bacon. Go to Hadley's in the kitchen right beside the frying steak —Diana on the phone—get a little plastic bag from Drum— Fill it up with...
- We were limited in money to purchase supplies, so we took a 100 pound sack of potatoes and several sacks of flour and some bisquick, and of course a case of beer. - 2006, Reginald Gould, Gold Miner 49er, page 25:
- In the kitchen I found some bisquick and thought maybe I could make some pancakes[.] - 2010, James Simpson, This Other Simpson, page 121:
Origin
From the brand name Bisquick. Blend of biscuit + quick, because the mix was originally sold as a way of making biscuits in "90 seconds from package to oven".