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gz

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Posted: Thu Feb 20, 20 10:35 pm Post subject:
Tahir, agreed we have started trying more biscuit recipes lately..something to do with being indoors this weather!!

dpack

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Posted: Thu Feb 20, 20 10:56 pm Post subject:

Slim

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Posted: Fri Feb 21, 20 12:23 am Post subject:
I just remembered that you are probably taking about cookies

dpack

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Posted: Fri Feb 21, 20 12:31 am Post subject:
yep but biscuits are good , as are crackers(in the baking sense)

Mistress Rose

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Posted: Fri Feb 21, 20 8:04 am Post subject:
What do you designate a biscuit and a cookie Slim? The two terms are pretty well interchangeable in the UK, although cookie is regarded as a bit American.

sgt.colon

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Location: Just south of north.

Posted: Fri Feb 21, 20 9:51 am Post subject:
Well I think a cookie is a cookie and biscuit is a biscuit. Two totally different things in my opinion. Biscuits gooooood, cookie, just okay.

gz

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Posted: Fri Feb 21, 20 9:55 am Post subject:
Bis-cuit = twice baked, so I assume biscuits should be firm....and cookies definitely not!

Slim

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Posted: Fri Feb 21, 20 10:21 am Post subject:

Oh my goodness have you never had southern biscuits? Here they never refer to cookies, though I know that over your way some biscuits wouldn't fit the cookie description. I think you'd be hard pressed to find an American school kid that would call a digestive a cookie, but they may have trouble giving it a name. They might call it a cracker.

Biscuits are like a party version of a dinner roll. They're incredible, when done properly. They aren't as good in my region because most of our floor has too much gluten

gz

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Posted: Fri Feb 21, 20 10:33 am Post subject:
Just a side issue re gluten...friends in NZ have difficulty getting flour with enough gluten for bread making.... We do assume that everyone's flour is the same!

Slim

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Posted: Fri Feb 21, 20 10:39 am Post subject:
https://www.kingarthurflour.com/recipes/baking-powder-biscuits-recipe This would be style of biscuit made around here. Southerners would probably not accept them as "real" And often folks have trouble getting the rise correct, resulting in hockey pucks

sgt.colon

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Posted: Fri Feb 21, 20 11:37 am Post subject:
They look a little bit like scones, Slim.

Slim

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Posted: Fri Feb 21, 20 12:06 pm Post subject:
Good point. They're different though

dpack

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Posted: Fri Feb 21, 20 1:37 pm Post subject:
southern biscuits are of the same family as scones, cobblers and Caribbean fried dumpling soft flour, raising agent, cook so as soft inside with a soft ish "crust" ace with gravy, stew etc i half suspect african slaves and cornish sailors were making breakfast together very early in colonial history.

gz

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Posted: Fri Feb 21, 20 8:12 pm Post subject:

Slim wrote:

https://www.kingarthurflour.com/recipes/baking-powder-biscuits-recipe

This would be style of biscuit made around here. Southerners would probably not accept them as "real"
And often folks have trouble getting the rise correct, resulting in hockey pucks

Aka Dwarf Bread (small) ?!

Mistress Rose

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Posted: Sat Feb 22, 20 7:57 am Post subject:

I have some Dorset Knob biscuits that fall into that category. They are rock hard and tend to shatter if you try to cut them with a knife, but are nice if you just eat them with cheese or something.

I suppose most of the things we call biscuits in the UK fall into your cookie definition then Slim. If my biscuits (only cooked once though) are properly cooked, they are quite crisp, so may have a problem with your definition.

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