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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.
Biscuits, soda breads, cornbread, and similar breads are all considered quick breads, meaning that they do not need time for the dough to rise before baking. [3] [4] Biscuits developed from hardtack, which was first made from only flour and water, to which lard and then baking powder were added later. [5]
A cookie (American English) or biscuit (British English) is a baked snack or dessert that is typically small, flat, and sweet. It usually contains flour , sugar , egg , and some type of oil , fat , or butter .
The biscuit known to English-speakers as biscotti is usually called cantuccio, a word that means 'corner' but in the past meant the crust or heel of a loaf of bread. The words biscottini and cantuccini are diminutives that refer to smaller versions of biscotti or cantucci .
Sometimes, the biscuit is dunked into the tea and eaten quickly due to the biscuit's tendency to disintegrate when wet. Digestive biscuits are one of the top 10 biscuits in the UK for dunking in tea. [5] The digestive biscuit is also used as a cracker with cheeses, and is often included in "cracker selection" packets.
Try our (goat cheese-stuffed) bacon-wrapped dates, our pumpkin cheese ball, our cheese ball bites, our whipped feta roasted potatoes, our turkuterie (yep, shaped like one!) to see what we mean.
Bojangles has gotten biscuit-making down to a precise science but as the company grows it is continually re-assessing and re-evaluating the product. "We're still perfecting it," Scarborough tells ...
egg roll (鸡蛋卷), love letters, kueh belandah, crispy biscuit roll, crisp biscuit roll or cookie roll: Spain: Derivative of barquillos. Biscuit snack commonly found in Asia. It is crunchy and can be easily broken into pieces. Made of wheat flour, butter, egg, sugar and vanilla flavor.