biscuitry

noun6

1. •
   The baking of biscuits, bread, and similar items.

   • His biscuits -- well, I have eaten the results of less succuessful efforts in biscuitry, but I remember neither when nor where. — 1913
2. •
   The business of manufacturing biscuits.
3. •
   A mass or collection of baked goods such as biscuits and bread.

   • 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. — 1972
4. •
   An individual business that manufactures biscuits and similar items; a biscuit factory.

   • 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. — 1920
5. •
   The process of inserting biscuits (thin ovals of wood or other material) into mating slots in order to provide a gluing surface.

   • 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. — 2000
6. •
   Synonym of biscuit (“a form of unglazed earthenware”).

   • Though rare, this pierced biscuitry is typically Ming. — 1928