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The word nankhatai is derived from the Classical Persian نانِ خطائی nān-i khaṭāʾī, lit. ' Cathayan bread, bread of Cathay [northern China] ', [2] composed of نان nān meaning ‘bread’ and خطائی khaṭāʾī meaning ‘Cathayan’. [2]
drop (of liquid) several (fluid) ounces ("just a drop of tea, please") (meiotic usage) droplet (less than a milliliter) duck a score of zero by a batsman in cricket, supposedly derived from the zero-like shape of a duck's egg. Hence to "break one's duck": to score one's first run. c.f. US: "get the monkey off one's back" a term of endearment
The Urdu Dictionary Board (Urdu: اردو لغت بورڈ, romanized: Urdu Lughat Board) is an academic and literary institution of Pakistan, administered by National History and Literary Heritage Division of the Ministry of Information & Broadcasting. Its objective is to edit and publish a comprehensive dictionary of the Urdu language.
Biscuit: A baked, commonly flour-based food product. The Middle French word bescuit is derived from the Latin words bis (twice) and coquere, coctus (to cook, cooked), and, hence, means "twice-cooked". [2] This is because biscuits were originally cooked in a twofold process: first baked, and then dried out in a slow oven. [3]
Biscuits developed from hardtack, which was first made from only flour and water, to which lard and then baking powder were added later. [5] The long development over time and place explains why the word biscuit can, depending upon the context and the speaker's English dialect, refer to very different baked goods.
Preheat the oven to 425°F. In a large bowl, combine flour and butter. Use the pastry cutter to cut the butter into the flour until the pieces of butter are about the size of peas.
A 1907 recipe for jumbles describes their texture as "crisp like snaps". The dough should be "so thin after rolling and cutting out, that one can almost see through them". The only moisture in the recipe is the creamed butter and "a scant cupful of milk or enough to make a stiff dough about like pie crust". [4]
In India rusk (sometimes also called toast biscuit) is a traditional dried bread or cake. It is also known as papay, rattan, khasta (Hindi: खस्ता), russ or cake rusk in Hindi-Urdu, and Punjabi or porai பொறை in Tamil or kathi biskut in Bengali. It is usually eaten dipped in milk tea which softens the rusk.