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A biscuit, in many English-speaking countries, including Britain, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, India, and South Africa but not Canada or the US, is a flour-based baked and shaped food item. Biscuits are typically hard, flat, and unleavened. They are usually sweet and may be made with sugar, chocolate, icing, jam, ginger, or cinnamon.
The decorative biscuit tin, invented by Huntley & Palmers in 1831, saw British cookies exported around the world. [16] In 1891, Cadbury filed a patent for a chocolate-coated cookie . [ 16 ]
In the United States, a biscuit is a variety of baked bread with a firm, dry exterior and a soft, crumbly interior. In Canada it sometimes also refers to this or a traditional European biscuit. It is made with baking powder as a leavening agent rather than yeast, and at times is called a baking powder biscuit to differentiate it from other ...
The original Arnott's logo depicted a multi-coloured parrot sitting atop a T-shaped perch, eating a cracker biscuit. During a radio interview on ABC, William Arnott's great-great-great-grandson stated that the logo represents the proverb "Honesty is the best policy" where the phrase was constructed from "On his T, is the best pol' (polly) I see".
A chart of accounts (COA) is a list of financial accounts and reference numbers, grouped into categories, such as assets, liabilities, equity, revenue and expenses, and used for recording transactions in the organization's general ledger. Accounts may be associated with an identifier (account number) and a caption or header and are coded by ...
Buttermilk biscuits can be traced back to the simpler times of the 19th century when many people were employed to work on farms. Out of sheer necessity, they found innovative ways to use whatever ...
The biscuits were first introduced in France in 1998, [4] [5] expanding to seven additional European markets in 2000, Brazil in 2010 and the North American market in 2012. [ 6 ] [ 7 ] [ 8 ] In November 2011, Kraft Foods announced that it had given the advertising creative assignment for Belvita in the United States of America to Crispin Porter ...
Huntley & Palmers is a British company of biscuit makers originally based in Reading, Berkshire. [1] Formed by Joseph Huntley in 1822, the company became one of the world's first global brands (chiefly led by George Palmer who joined in 1841) and ran what was once the world's largest biscuit factory.