DCHP-1 Online
biscuit root 
See prairie turnip 1892 quote.
See also: prairie turnip
- 1868 The white biscuit root, the racine blanc of the Voyageurs . . . is dried, pulverised, and made into cakes baken in the sun.
- 1891 The kouse-root . . . known to Canadians as racine blanc and bread or biscuit root, is largely used.
- 1923 . . . they gathered also other nutritious roots and wild fruits, such as caious (a biscuit root) . . . and mountain cherries, which they dried into cakes.
- 1868 The white biscuit root, the racine blanc of the Voyageurs . . . is dried, pulverised, and made into cakes baken in the sun.