Question #60388. Asked by RaeRae55.
Last updated Aug 08 2017.
The Old French word bescuit is derived from the Latin words bis (twice) and coquere, coctus (to cook, cooked), and, hence, means "twice-cooked". This is because biscuits were originally cooked in a twofold process: first baked, and then dried out in a slow oven.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biscuit