As I understand it, anything that's a cookie would be a biscuit, a biscuit has some semblance of the scone, and the cracker is mostly still cracker but sometimes biscuit instead.
Does that clear things up?
09:31 Aug 31st 2010
windjunky
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Here are two example recipes for what are essetially the same thing.. The only real difference is that you guys in the States have named them wrongly
Example 1:
Chocolate Chip Biscuits
How to make Chocolate Chip Biscuits:
Quantity
Ingredients
50g (2 oz)
Margarine
50g (2 oz)
Castor Sugar
50g (2 oz)
Soft brown sugar
1
Egg
1/2 teaspoon
Vanilla essence
100g (4oz)
Self raising flour
175g (6 oz)
Chocolate chips or broken chocolate
50g (2 oz)
Mixed chopped nuts
Method
Preheat the oven to 190C, 375F, gas mark
5. In a large mixing bowl, cream the margarine with
both sugars until soft and fluffy. Carefully add the
egg and if necessary a little flour to stop from curdling.
Stir in the vanilla essence. Fold in the flour, add
the chocolate and nuts. Shape the mixture into small
balls and place on a greased baking tin, leaving space
between them as each chocolate chipbiscuit will spread during cooking. Cook for
8-10 minutes.
eample 2:
Double Chocolate and Hazelnut Cookies
How to make Double Chocolate and Hazelnut Cookies:
Quantity
Ingredients
100g
plain flour
100g
caster sugar
2
eggs
100g
butter
100g
plain chocolate, melted
100g
ground hazelnuts
100g
plain chocolate chips
Method
1. Preheat oven to 180 degrees
Celsius. Grease and line two cookie sheets. 2. In a bowl, cream the
butter and sugar together until light and fluffy. 3. Beat the eggs and
add to the mixture a little at a time. 4. Fold in the flour gradually.
5. Fold in the melted chocolate and ground hazelnuts, and then the
chocolate chips. 6. Bake for 15-20 minutes.
Makes about 12 cookies.
09:40 Aug 31st 2010
GoddTodd
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Yes, but we Yanks like our soft cookies.
It happened sometime in the late '80's. Famous Amous and Mrs. Fields might be to blame.
Big fat soft cookies with big clunky chunks of chocolate and macedamea nuts are like crank to us Americans.
11:37 Aug 31st 2010
Hugo Rune
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Windy; That's very close to Cake Club!
Obviously I have just broken the first rule of Cake Club by mentioning it
11:48 Aug 31st 2010
Saracen2000
London
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I thought it worked like this;
USA:
Bicuit= savoury (a bit like our Yorkie pubs)
Cookie=Sweet
Cracker=sweet(graham) OR savoury
UK:
Biscuit-=Sweet
Cookie=Sweet
Cracker=savoury (jacobs etc)
Clear as mud!
12:34 Aug 31st 2010
Brother Brown
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I think you need to check out The Great M.L.G Biscuit debate to resolve this delema. We have just about managed all to agree that a Jaffa is a cake.
14:42 Aug 31st 2010
Mesozoic Prinny
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If we use the Jaffa Cake test on an American cookie – i.e. one of those soft and squidgy ones a bit like cake – does it go harder or softer?
16:37 Aug 31st 2010
windjunky
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Hugo Rune said:
Windy; That's very close to Cake Club!
Obviously I have just broken the first rule of Cake Club by mentioning it
You're mistaken.. the cake club is for pussies. The biscuite club is for.. you know.. real men.
You're mistaken.. the cake club is for pussies. The biscuite club is for.. you know.. real men.
You absolute f**ker. You f**king take that back or I'm coming round and I'm going to smash some sense into your thick f**king head!!
"I fractured my thumb on the mute button, but I think I made my point." Jeff 'Joker' Moreau
19:02 Aug 31st 2010
windjunky
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Never have I felt so afraid of someone with a pastry brush..
20:34 Aug 31st 2010
GoddTodd
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So where do brownies stand in all this?
If you eat it with a fork, it's cake.
If it's soft, square, and you eat it with your fingers, it's a brownie.
But don't even ask me what a lemon bar is.
21:36 Aug 31st 2010
Phizzy
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What happens when you round the edges off a brownie?
21:48 Aug 31st 2010
Mesozoic Prinny
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I'm pretty sure brownies go hard if you leave them out, which makes them cakes, but if you did round the corners off first and them left them out, hey presto, chocolate biscuits that won't go soft! Bagsy the patent!
Also, that lemon bar looks suspiciously like someone chopped the round bits off a lemon curd tart.
Finally, cakes are cakes, and brownies are cakes, and you can eat either with your fingers, or a fork, or by holding the plate up to your face and snuffling the cake off like a pig, but the lemon curd tart is a dessert and should be eaten with a dessert fork and dessert spoon, or by doing the snuffling thing.
09:15 Sep 1st 2010
Brother Brown
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I refuse to lower the tone of this debate about Brownies going hard.
13:12 Sep 2nd 2010
mixindave
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oldroo said:
As I understand it, anything that's a cookie would be a biscuit, a biscuit has some semblance of the scone, and the cracker is mostly still cracker but sometimes biscuit instead.
Does that clear things up?
cracker is leavened bread.
13:56 Sep 2nd 2010
Mesozoic Prinny
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I guess not then.
15:58 Sep 2nd 2010
Brother Brown
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oldroo said:
As I understand it, anything that's a cookie would be a biscuit, a biscuit has some semblance of the scone, and the cracker is mostly still cracker but sometimes biscuit instead.
Does that clear things up?
Ive got a headache just thinking about it.
19:17 Sep 3rd 2010
dno1970
Middle Earth
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GoddTodd said:
Hard Chocolait Chip = Biscuit?
Soft Oatmeal Raison = Biscuit?
Incuiring yanks want to know.
GT
Firstly I would suggest a dictionary then we will debate the biscuit issue
Absconde obesito illegitimo
19:22 Sep 3rd 2010
Mesozoic Prinny
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I think he's American. Apparently they don't know about spelling over there. They even leave the 'u' out of 'colour'.
20:37 Sep 3rd 2010
GoddTodd
Emeryville, CA USA
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Yes, we spell things differently on our side of the pond.
Yes, I'm a terrible speller regardless.
20:23 Sep 4th 2010
GoddTodd
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Do you Brits have an equivelent to Girl Scout Cookies?
Once a year, this orginization sends out a huge network of wee crack dealers that loiter in front of Grocery stores, come to your doorstep to shake you down for your cookie vig, and send thier minions (parents) to your workplace.
It's a good thing this happens only once a year because those cookies are damn addictive!
I think if they sold those cookies in stores year round American sociaty would collaps into a collective diabettic coma.
Here's a pic of some of thier nefarious wares.
The three on the right are the most popular.
The Samoa; vanilla cookie covered in coconut rolled caramel, toped with chocolate (my personal fave)
The Thin Mint; chocolate/mint cookie covered in chocolate
The Tagalong, akin to a round peanut butter Twix.
The
21:03 Sep 4th 2010
Mesozoic Prinny
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We just have regular crack dealers and jumble sales.
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