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According to the letters of the Marquise de Sévigné, the cookie was maybe created for the first time in Sablé-sur-Sarthe in 1670. [1] The French word sablé means "sandy", [2] a rough equivalent of English "breadcrumbs". Generally, the baker begins the process by rubbing cold butter into flour and sugar to form particles of dough until the ...
They contain more flour than the typical sponge cake. The mixture is piped through a pastry bag in short lines onto sheets, [3] giving the biscuits their notable shape. Before baking, powdered sugar is usually sifted over the top [3] to give a soft crust. The finished ladyfingers are usually layered into a dessert such as tiramisu or trifle.
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.
A 2009 survey found that the Bourbon biscuit was the fifth most popular biscuit in the United Kingdom for dunking in tea. [ 7 ] The small holes in bourbon biscuits are to prevent the biscuits from cracking or breaking during the baking process, by allowing steam to escape. [ 8 ]
The Université de l'Ontario français is situated in downtown Toronto, near the shoreline of Lake Ontario. The university campus is located at 9 Lower Jarvis Street, at the base of a high-rise in the East Bayfront neighbourhood of downtown Toronto. [20] The university leases 4,654 square metres (50,100 sq ft) of space within the building. [20]