biscuitry

biscuit +‎ -ry

biscuitry (countable and uncountable, plural biscuitries)

1. (uncountable) A mass or collection of baked goods such as biscuits and bread.
   • 1920, Coffee and Tea Industries and the Flavor Field - Volume 43, page 212:

     During the war, while most other foreign colony groceries of Manhattan were destitute of exotic supplies, these Tartar-Espafioles managed to get certain shipments of their needed products from the Nile region (as date, palm and raisin sugars; lentil biscuitry; kaviar, compressed and dry; and many other items).

   • 1972, Monograph on the Alginates - Issue 229,:

     This bread as well as other kinds of biscuitry containing alginate can be made palatable by the use of twice the normal quantity of yeast and by addition of sugar, butter, etc.

   • 1998 -, Sally Morrison, Against gravity, page 73:

     Once the cricketers had departed, Delia brought coffee and an unappetising lump of biscuitry into the sitting room.

2. (uncountable) The baking of biscuits, bread, and similar items.
   • 1913, Percy C. Long, Caspar Whitney, Edward Cave, Recreation - Volume 49, page 342:

     His biscuits -- well, I have eaten the results of less succuessful efforts in biscuitry, but I remember neither when nor where.

   • 1920, The Delineator - Volume 97, page 61:

     Yet baking—the greatest bugbear of all-still haunts the woman who has not utilized biscuitry to the utmost.

3. (uncountable) The business of manufacturing biscuits.
   • 1968, United States. Congress. Senate, Hearings - Volume 3, page 3894:

     Similar developments also took place in vinegars, ginger bread, sweets and desserts, pastries where Generate Alimentaire came up very fast by means of merger, fortifying Its threatened position ; in biscuitry, where the main French groups (L'Alsacienne, Bicuiterie Nantaise and Buscuits Brun) have succeeded in outstripping American companies like Nabisco and Pillsbury; in milk products, where large companies such as Genvrain, Gervais and Rocquefort existed already before the war and strenghened their positions further by take-overs during the fifties, as did the two large cooperatives, a defensive reaction occurred when about 10 small companies joined forces in Sapiem; this company now has merged with Genvrain.

   • 1973, International Labour Office, Report on the ILO/SIDA Asian Regional Seminar on Labour Inspection in Relation to the Employment of Women and Protection of Children, →ISBN:

     In one country wage boards fixed wages for women on time rate 30 per cent less than those for men, but identical piece rates, while equal pay prevailed in some specific industries (i.e. hosiery, biscuitry and some other industries).

4. (countable) An individual business that manufactures biscuits and similar items; a biscuit factory.
   • 1920, The Cracker Baker - Volume 9, page 39:

     For a couple of years the present writer was familiar with Russian biscuitries all over slafāom from the Pacific to the Baltic, but saw nothing original.

   • 1961, Poppy Cannon, Poppy Cannon's Eating European: Abroad and at Home, page 152:

     Also there are madeleines made by the biscuitry of the abbey located at Avenay-Val-d'Or near Rheims.

   • 2014, Paul Rabinow, French Modern: Norms and Forms of the Social Environment, →ISBN, page 339:

     Other industry followed: aviation motors, Westinghouse electrical industry, Hewitt, a biscuitry, and an important perfume factory.

5. (woodworking, uncountable) The process of inserting biscuits (thin ovals of wood or other material) into mating slots in order to provide a gluing surface.
   • 2000, Fine Woodworking - Issues 140-146, page 81:

     If all goes well with the lathe and the biscuitry, there will be only a little filing and scraping required to smooth the transitions around the corners.

6. (uncountable) Synonym of biscuit (“a form of unglazed earthenware”)
   • 1928, Old Furniture: A Magazine of Domestic Ornament - Volume 5, page 4:

     Though rare, this pierced biscuitry is typically Ming.