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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.
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 ...
Chewier biscuits are sometimes called "cookies,” even in the Commonwealth. [3] Some cookies may also be named by their shape, such as date squares or bars. Biscuit or cookie variants include sandwich biscuits , such as custard creams , Jammie Dodgers , Bourbons , and Oreos , with marshmallows or jam filling and sometimes dipped in chocolate ...
A biscuit filled with fig paste that dates back to ancient Egypt. [citation needed] Pictured is the modern variation made in the US, the "Fig Newton". Finskepinner: Norway / Sweden A biscuit characterized by its long shape, almond extract, and slivered almonds or pearled sugar on top. Florentine Biscuit: Italy
An Empire biscuit (also known as Imperial biscuit, German biscuit and Belgian biscuit [1]) is a sweet biscuit originating in Scotland and popular in the North East of England. It is also popular in Northern Ireland , as well as Canada (particularly iconic in Winnipeg and Hamilton ).
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Beaten biscuits were once so popular that special machines, called biscuits brakes, were manufactured to knead the dough in home kitchens. [6] A biscuit brake typically consists of a pair of steel rollers geared together and operated by a crank, mounted on a small table with a marble top and cast iron legs.
A water biscuit (Commonwealth English) or water cracker (American English) is a type of savoury cracker. They are thin, hard and brittle, and usually served with cheese or wine. [ 1 ]