Biscuit, the Glossary
A biscuit, in English speaking countries such as Britain, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa, is a flour-based baked and shaped food item.[1]
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140 relations: Achaemenid Empire, Al-Andalus, Ancient Rome, Anthony the Great, Anzac biscuit, Apicius, Armenians, Baking, Baking powder, Barley, Bean, Beaten biscuit, Bengal, Bengali Muslims, Bipin Chandra Pal, Biscotti, Biscotti regina, Biscuit (bread), Biscuit rose de Reims, Biscuit tin, Bondaroy, Bourbon biscuit, Brine, Buttermilk, Cachar district, Cadbury, Cake, Canada, Canadian English, Canadian Oxford Dictionary, Canning, Carr's, Chocolate, Chocolate biscuit, Chocolate chip cookie, Chocolate-coated marshmallow treats, Cinnamon, Comparison of American and British English, Cook (profession), Cookie, Cooking, Cracker (food), Cream cracker, Crispbread, Crusades, Custard cream, Cyclopædia, or an Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences, Dictionary, Digestion, Digestive biscuit, ... Expand index (90 more) »
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Achaemenid Empire
The Achaemenid Empire or Achaemenian Empire, also known as the Persian Empire or First Persian Empire (𐎧𐏁𐏂), was an ancient Iranian empire founded by Cyrus the Great of the Achaemenid dynasty in 550 BC.
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Al-Andalus
Al-Andalus was the Muslim-ruled area of the Iberian Peninsula.
Ancient Rome
In modern historiography, ancient Rome is the Roman civilisation from the founding of the Italian city of Rome in the 8th century BC to the collapse of the Western Roman Empire in the 5th century AD.
Anthony the Great
Anthony the Great (Ἀντώνιος Antṓnios; القديس أنطونيوس الكبير; Antonius;; – 17 January 356) was a Christian monk from Egypt, revered since his death as a saint.
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Anzac biscuit
The Anzac biscuit is a sweet biscuit, popular in Australia and New Zealand, made using rolled oats, flour, sugar, butter (or margarine), golden syrup, baking soda, boiling water and optionally desiccated coconut. Biscuit and Anzac biscuit are biscuits.
Apicius
Apicius, also known as De re culinaria or De re coquinaria (On the Subject of Cooking), is a collection of Roman cookery recipes, which may have been compiled in the fifth century CE, or earlier.
Armenians
Armenians (hayer) are an ethnic group and nation native to the Armenian highlands of West Asia.
Baking
Baking is a method of preparing food that uses dry heat, typically in an oven, but can also be done in hot ashes, or on hot stones.
Baking powder
Baking powder is a dry chemical leavening agent, a mixture of a carbonate or bicarbonate and a weak acid.
Barley
Barley (Hordeum vulgare), a member of the grass family, is a major cereal grain grown in temperate climates globally.
Bean
A bean is the seed of several plants in the family Fabaceae, which are used as vegetables for human or animal food.
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Beaten biscuit
Beaten biscuits are a Southern food from the United States, dating from the 19th century.
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Bengal
Geographical distribution of the Bengali language Bengal (Bôṅgo) or endonym Bangla (Bāṅlā) is a historical geographical, ethnolinguistic and cultural term referring to a region in the eastern part of the Indian subcontinent at the apex of the Bay of Bengal.
Bengali Muslims
Bengali Muslims (বাঙালি মুসলমান) are adherents of Islam who ethnically, linguistically and genealogically identify as Bengalis.
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Bipin Chandra Pal
Bipin Chandra Pal (বিপিন চন্দ্র পাল; 7 November 1858 – 20 May 1932) was an Indian nationalist, writer, orator, social reformer and freedom fighter.
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Biscotti
Biscotti is the Italian plural term for any type of biscuit or cookie. Biscuit and Biscotti are biscuits and twice-baked goods.
Biscotti regina
Biscotti regina or reginelle are small Sicilian biscuits, coated with sesame seeds. Biscuit and Biscotti regina are biscuits.
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Biscuit (bread)
In the United States, a biscuit is a variety of baked bread with a firm, dry exterior and a soft, crumbly interior.
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Biscuit rose de Reims
Biscuit rose de Reims (biscuits roses de Reims), is a pink biscuit found in French cuisine, made pink by the addition of carmine.
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Biscuit tin
Biscuit tins are utilitarian or decorative containers used to package and sell biscuits (such as those served during tea) and some confectionery. Biscuit and biscuit tin are biscuits.
Bondaroy
Bondaroy is a commune in the Loiret department in north-central France.
Bourbon biscuit
The Bourbon (pronounced or) is a sandwich biscuit consisting of two thin rectangular dark chocolate-flavoured biscuits with a chocolate buttercream filling. Biscuit and Bourbon biscuit are biscuits.
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Brine
Brine (or briny water) is water with a high-concentration solution of salt (typically sodium chloride or calcium chloride).
Buttermilk
Buttermilk is a fermented dairy drink.
Cachar district
Cachar district is an administrative district in the state of Assam in India.
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Cadbury
Cadbury, formerly Cadbury's and Cadbury Schweppes, is a British multinational confectionery company owned by Mondelez International (originally Kraft Foods) since 2010.
Cake
Cake is a flour confection made from flour, sugar, and other ingredients and is usually baked. Biscuit and Cake are European cuisine and types of food.
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Canada
Canada is a country in North America.
Canadian English
Canadian English (CanE, CE, en-CA) encompasses the varieties of English used in Canada.
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Canadian Oxford Dictionary
The Canadian Oxford Dictionary is a dictionary of Canadian English.
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Canning
Canning is a method of food preservation in which food is processed and sealed in an airtight container (jars like Mason jars, and steel and tin cans).
Carr's
Carr's is a British biscuit and cracker manufacturer, currently owned by Pladis Global through its subsidiary United Biscuits.
Chocolate
Chocolate or cocoa is a food made from roasted and ground cocoa seed kernels that is available as a liquid, solid, or paste, either on its own or as a flavoring agent in other foods.
Chocolate biscuit
A chocolate biscuit is a biscuit (called "cookie" in the US) which is covered in chocolate, or which has been made by replacing some of the flour with cocoa powder. Biscuit and chocolate biscuit are biscuits.
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Chocolate chip cookie
A chocolate chip cookie is a drop cookie that features chocolate chips or chocolate morsels as its distinguishing ingredient.
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Chocolate-coated marshmallow treats
Chocolate-coated marshmallow treats, also known as chocolate teacakes, are confections consisting of a biscuit base topped with marshmallow-like filling and then coated in a hard shell of chocolate.
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Cinnamon
Cinnamon is a spice obtained from the inner bark of several tree species from the genus Cinnamomum.
Comparison of American and British English
The English language was introduced to the Americas by the arrival of the British, beginning in the late 16th and early 17th centuries.
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Cook (profession)
A cook is a professional individual who prepares items for consumption in the food industry, especially in settings such as restaurants.
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Cookie
A cookie (American English) or biscuit (British English) is a baked snack or dessert that is typically small, flat, and sweet. Biscuit and cookie are biscuits and types of food.
Cooking
Cooking, also known as cookery or professionally as the culinary arts, is the art, science and craft of using heat to make food more palatable, digestible, nutritious, or safe.
Cracker (food)
A cracker is a flat, dry baked biscuit typically made with flour.
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Cream cracker
A cream cracker is a flat, usually square, savoury biscuit.
Crispbread
Crispbread is a flat and dry type of bread, containing mostly rye flour.
Crusades
The Crusades were a series of religious wars initiated, supported, and sometimes directed by the Christian Latin Church in the medieval period.
Custard cream
A custard cream is a type of sandwich biscuit popular in the British Isles filled with a creamy, custard-flavoured centre. Biscuit and custard cream are biscuits.
Cyclopædia, or an Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences
Cyclopædia: or, An Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences is a British encyclopedia prepared by Ephraim Chambers and first published in 1728; six more editions appeared between 1728 and 1751 with a Supplement in 1753.
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Dictionary
A dictionary is a listing of lexemes from the lexicon of one or more specific languages, often arranged alphabetically (or by consonantal root for Semitic languages or radical and stroke for logographic languages), which may include information on definitions, usage, etymologies, pronunciations, translation, etc.
Digestion
Digestion is the breakdown of large insoluble food compounds into small water-soluble components so that they can be absorbed into the blood plasma.
Digestive biscuit
A digestive biscuit, sometimes described as a sweet-meal biscuit, is a semi-sweet biscuit that originated in Scotland. Biscuit and digestive biscuit are biscuits.
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Dog biscuit
A dog biscuit is a hard, biscuit-based, dietary supplement for dogs or other canines, similar to human snack food. Biscuit and dog biscuit are biscuits.
Dunking (biscuit)
To dunk or to dip a biscuit or some other food, usually baked goods, means to submerge it into a drink, especially tea, coffee, or milk. Biscuit and Dunking (biscuit) are biscuits.
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Dutch language
Dutch (Nederlands.) is a West Germanic language, spoken by about 25 million people as a first language and 5 million as a second language and is the third most spoken Germanic language.
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Egypt
Egypt (مصر), officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a transcontinental country spanning the northeast corner of Africa and the Sinai Peninsula in the southwest corner of Asia.
Elizabeth David
Elizabeth David (born Elizabeth Gwynne, 26 December 1913 – 22 May 1992) was a British cookery writer.
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English Bread and Yeast Cookery
English Bread and Yeast Cookery is an English cookery book by Elizabeth David, first published in 1977.
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Financial Times
The Financial Times (FT) is a British daily newspaper printed in broadsheet and also published digitally that focuses on business and economic current affairs.
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Flour
Flour is a powder made by grinding raw grains, roots, beans, nuts, or seeds.
Food
Food is any substance consumed by an organism for nutritional support.
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Foraging
Foraging is searching for wild food resources.
Fruit preserves
Fruit preserves are preparations of fruits whose main preserving agent is sugar and sometimes acid, often stored in glass jars and used as a condiment or spread.
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Garibaldi biscuit
The Garibaldi biscuit consists of currants squashed and sandwiched between two thin oblongs of biscuit dough before baking. Biscuit and Garibaldi biscuit are biscuits.
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Ginger
Ginger (Zingiber officinale) is a flowering plant whose rhizome, ginger root or ginger, is widely used as a spice and a folk medicine.
Ginger snap
A gingersnap, ginger snap, ginger nut, or ginger biscuit is a biscuit flavoured with ginger. Biscuit and ginger snap are biscuits.
Gingerbread
Gingerbread refers to a broad category of baked goods, typically flavored with ginger, cloves, nutmeg, and cinnamon and sweetened with honey, sugar, or molasses.
Gosport
Gosport is a town and non-metropolitan borough, on the south coast of Hampshire, South East England.
Ground biscuit
Ground biscuit is a form of biscuit, usually baked, flour-based food products, that is specially processed by grinding. Biscuit and Ground biscuit are biscuits, European cuisine and twice-baked goods.
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Guernsey
Guernsey (Guernésiais: Guernési; Guernesey) is the second-largest island in the Channel Islands, located west of the Cotentin Peninsula, Normandy.
Guild
A guild is an association of artisans and merchants who oversee the practice of their craft/trade in a particular territory.
Hardtack
Hardtack (or hard tack) is a type of dense biscuit (British English) or cracker (American English) made from flour, water, and sometimes salt. Biscuit and Hardtack are biscuits.
Hindus
Hindus (also known as Sanātanīs) are people who religiously adhere to Hinduism, also known by its endonym Sanātana Dharma.
Hobnob biscuit
Hobnobs (sometimes stylized as HobNobs) is the brand name of a commercial biscuit.
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Hovis biscuit
The Hovis biscuit is a British manufactured digestive biscuit.
Huntley & Palmers
Huntley & Palmers is a British company of biscuit makers originally based in Reading, Berkshire.
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Icing (food)
Icing, or frosting, is a sweet, often creamy glaze made of sugar with a liquid, such as water or milk, that is often enriched with ingredients like butter, egg whites, cream cheese, or flavorings.
Industrial Revolution
The Industrial Revolution, sometimes divided into the First Industrial Revolution and Second Industrial Revolution, was a period of global transition of the human economy towards more widespread, efficient and stable manufacturing processes that succeeded the Agricultural Revolution.
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Jammie Dodgers
Jammie Dodgers are a popular British biscuit, made from shortcake with a raspberry or strawberry flavoured jam filling.
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Ka'ak
Ka'ak (كعك; also transliterated kaak) or kahqa is the common Arabic word for cake or biscuit, in its various senses, and can refer to several different types of baked goods produced throughout the Arab world and the Near East.
Latin
Latin (lingua Latina,, or Latinum) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages.
Leavening agent
In cooking, a leavening agent or raising agent, also called a leaven or leavener, is any one of a number of substances used in doughs and batters that cause a foaming action (gas bubbles) that lightens and softens the mixture.
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Lesser Armenia
Lesser Armenia (translit; Armenia Minor), also known as Armenia Minor and Armenia Inferior, comprised the Armenian-populated regions primarily to the west and northwest of the ancient Kingdom of Armenia (also known as Kingdom of Greater Armenia), on the western side of the Euphrates River.
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List of baked goods
This is a list of baked goods.
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List of cookies
This is a list of notable cookies (American English), also called biscuits (British English). Biscuit and list of cookies are biscuits.
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List of shortbread biscuits and cookies
This is a list of shortbread biscuits and cookies.
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Loaf
A loaf (loaves) is a (usually) rounded or oblong quantity of food, typically and originally of bread.
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Love's Labour's Lost
Love's Labour's Lost is one of William Shakespeare's early comedies, believed to have been written in the mid-1590s for a performance at the Inns of Court before Queen Elizabeth I. It follows the King of Navarre and his three companions as they attempt to swear off the company of women for three years in order to focus on study and fasting.
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Lynne Olver
Lynne Olver (1958–2015) was a librarian and food historian, and the sole author of the Food Timeline website.
McVitie's
McVitie's is a British snack food brand owned by United Biscuits.
Merriam-Webster
Merriam-Webster, Incorporated is an American company that publishes reference books and is mostly known for its dictionaries.
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Middle Ages
In the history of Europe, the Middle Ages or medieval period (also spelt mediaeval or mediæval) lasted from approximately 500 to 1500 AD.
Middle English
Middle English (abbreviated to ME) is a form of the English language that was spoken after the Norman Conquest of 1066, until the late 15th century.
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Millet
Millets are a highly varied group of small-seeded grasses, widely grown around the world as cereal crops or grains for fodder and human food.
Molasses
Molasses is a viscous byproduct, principally obtained from the refining of sugarcane or sugar beet juice into sugar.
Nabisco
Nabisco (abbreviated from the earlier name National Biscuit Company) is an American manufacturer of cookies and snacks headquartered in East Hanover, New Jersey.
National Museum of the Royal Navy
The National Museum of the Royal Navy was created in early 2009 to act as a single non-departmental public body for the museums of the Royal Navy.
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Nicopolis
Nicopolis (City of Victory) or Actia Nicopolis was the capital city of the Roman province of Epirus Vetus.
Nun
A nun is a woman who vows to dedicate her life to religious service and contemplation, typically living under vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience in the enclosure of a monastery or convent.
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Oatcake
An oatcake is a type of flatbread similar to a cracker or biscuit, or in some versions takes the form of a pancake.
Old French
Old French (franceis, françois, romanz; ancien français) was the language spoken in most of the northern half of France approximately between the late 8th and the mid-14th century.
Oreo
Oreo (stylized in all caps) is a brand of sandwich cookie consisting of two cocoa biscuits or cookie pieces with a sweet fondant filling.
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Oxford English Dictionary
The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) is the principal historical dictionary of the English language, published by Oxford University Press (OUP), a University of Oxford publishing house.
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Oxford University Press
Oxford University Press (OUP) is the publishing house of the University of Oxford.
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Penguin Books
Penguin Books Limited is a British publishing house.
Pithiviers
Pithiviers is a commune in the Loiret department, north central France.
Polly Russell
Polly Elisabeth Russell is a food historian and curator at the British Library with responsibility for research on social science and food.
Poppy seed
Poppy seed is an oilseed obtained from the opium poppy (Papaver somniferum).
Queen Victoria
Victoria (Alexandrina Victoria; 24 May 1819 – 22 January 1901) was Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 20 June 1837 until her death in 1901.
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Quick bread
Quick bread is any bread leavened with a chemical leavening agent rather than a biological one like yeast or sourdough starter. Biscuit and Quick bread are types of food.
Rich tea
Rich tea is a type of sweet biscuit; the ingredients generally include wheat flour, sugar, vegetable oil and malt extract. Biscuit and Rich tea are biscuits.
Richard I of England
Richard I (8 September 1157 – 6 April 1199), known as Richard Cœur de Lion (Norman French: Quor de Lion) or Richard the Lionheart because of his reputation as a great military leader and warrior, was King of England from 1189 until his death in 1199.
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Royal Navy
The Royal Navy (RN) is the naval warfare force of the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies, and a component of His Majesty's Naval Service.
Rusk
A rusk is a hard, dry biscuit or a twice-baked bread. Biscuit and rusk are biscuits and twice-baked goods.
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Rye
Rye (Secale cereale) is a grass grown extensively as a grain, a cover crop and a forage crop.
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Samuel Pepys
Samuel Pepys (23 February 1633 – 26 May 1703) was an English diarist and naval administrator.
Sandwich cookie
A sandwich cookie, also known as a sandwich biscuit, is a type of cookie made from two thin cookies or medium cookies with a filling between them.
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Sayings of the Desert Fathers
The Sayings of the Desert Fathers (Apophthegmata Patrum Aegyptiorum; translit) is the name given to various textual collections consisting of stories and sayings attributed to the Desert Fathers from approximately the 5th century AD.
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Scone
A scone is a traditional British baked good, popular in the United Kingdom and Ireland.
Scotland
Scotland (Scots: Scotland; Scottish Gaelic: Alba) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.
Shortbread
Shortbread or shortie is a traditional Scottish biscuit usually made from one part white sugar, two parts butter, and three to four parts plain wheat flour. Biscuit and Shortbread are biscuits and British cuisine.
Snack
A snack is a small portion of food generally eaten between meals.
Sodium bicarbonate
Sodium bicarbonate (IUPAC name: sodium hydrogencarbonate), commonly known as baking soda or bicarbonate of soda, is a chemical compound with the formula NaHCO3.
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Spanish Armada
The Spanish Armada (often known as Invincible Armada, or the Enterprise of England, lit) was a Spanish fleet that sailed from Lisbon in late May 1588, commanded by Alonso de Guzmán, Duke of Medina Sidonia, an aristocrat without previous naval experience appointed by Philip II of Spain.
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Speculaas
Speculaas is a type of spiced shortcrust biscuit baked with speculaas spices originated from the County of Flanders territory in present-day Belgium, France and the Netherlands. Biscuit and speculaas are biscuits.
Spice trade
The spice trade involved historical civilizations in Asia, Northeast Africa and Europe.
Sponge cake
Sponge cake is a light cake made with eggs, flour and sugar, sometimes leavened with baking powder.
Sugar
Sugar is the generic name for sweet-tasting, soluble carbohydrates, many of which are used in food.
Sylhet Division
Sylhet Division, সিলেট বিভাগ) is the northeastern division of Bangladesh. It is bordered by the Indian states of Meghalaya, Assam and Tripura to the north, east and south respectively, and by the divisions of Chittagong to the southwest and Dhaka and Mymensingh to the west. Prior to the Partition in 1947, it included Karimganj subdivision (presently in Barak Valley, Assam, India).
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Sylhetis
The Sylheti or Sylhetis are an Indo-Aryan ethnocultural group that are associated with the Sylhet region (Sylhet Division of Bangladesh and the Karimganj district of Assam, India).
The Maritimes
The Maritimes, also called the Maritime provinces, is a region of Eastern Canada consisting of three provinces: New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Prince Edward Island.
Third Crusade
The Third Crusade (1189–1192) was an attempt led by three European monarchs of Western Christianity (Philip II of France, Richard I of England and Frederick I, Holy Roman Emperor) to reconquer the Holy Land following the capture of Jerusalem by the Ayyubid sultan Saladin in 1187.
Umami
Umami (from 旨味), or savoriness, is one of the five basic tastes.
United Biscuits
United Biscuits (UB) is a British multinational food manufacturer, makers of McVitie's biscuits, Jacob's Cream Crackers, and Twiglets.
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University of Cambridge
The University of Cambridge is a public collegiate research university in Cambridge, England.
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Unleavened bread
Unleavened bread is any of a wide variety of breads which are prepared without using rising agents such as yeast or sodium bicarbonate.
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Vadstena Abbey
Aerial view The Abbey Pax Mariae (Monasterium sanctarum Mariæ Virgìnis et Brigidæ in Vatzstena), more commonly referred to as Vadstena Abbey, is situated on Lake Vättern in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Stockholm and is a monastery of nuns within the Bridgettine Order.
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Victoria and Albert Museum
The Victoria and Albert Museum (abbreviated V&A) in London is the world's largest museum of applied arts, decorative arts and design, housing a permanent collection of over 2.8 million objects.
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Water biscuit
A water biscuit (Commonwealth English) or water cracker (American English) is a type of savoury cracker. Biscuit and water biscuit are biscuits.
William Mellis Christie
William Mellis Christie (5 January 1829 – 14 June 1900) is the namesake for the Canadian Mr.
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William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare (23 April 1564 – 23 April 1616) was an English playwright, poet and actor.
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Zwieback
Zwieback is a form of rusk eaten in Austria, Belgium, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Luxembourg, The Netherlands, North Macedonia, Poland, Scandinavia, Serbia, Slovenia, Switzerland and Turkey. Biscuit and Zwieback are twice-baked goods.
See also
Twice-baked goods
- Bappir
- Biscocho
- Biscotti
- Biscuit
- Biscuits
- Fat rascal
- Ground biscuit
- List of twice-baked foods
- Mandelbrot (cookie)
- Melba toast
- Rusk
- Zwieback
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biscuit
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