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Historians Say They've Solved the Mystery of a Curious 100-Year-Old Contraption Discovered in Storage

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Dorchester County Historical Society in Maryland has identified a machine that's been in storage since the 1990s .

It's a mechanical “beaten biscuit” maker, used to make a type of dense baked good that was historically popular in the American South .

Beaten biscuits are made with flour, salt, water, sugar and lard.