I think they mean caramelised biscuits.
Biscotti is a misnomer, it's more of a cake.
( Frisbee TeaBoy, Tue 14 Jun 2011, 9:37, archived)

it's so not a cake.

( sleepybinky, Tue 14 Jun 2011, 9:42, archived)

starts hard, goes soft. Biscuit.

( sleepybinky, Tue 14 Jun 2011, 9:42, archived)

starts soft, goes hard. Cake.

( sleepybinky, Tue 14 Jun 2011, 9:42, archived)

starts soft, goes shrivelled, frisbee_adam.

( sleepybinky, Tue 14 Jun 2011, 9:43, archived)

I admire you for your perspicacity.
It's a rare talent but you seem to have it in abundance.
( Lord Gnome, Tue 14 Jun 2011, 9:50, archived)

it's good that she's sweaty?

( RocketSurgeon is pretending he's still young, Tue 14 Jun 2011, 9:52, archived)

That's a terrible interpretation of biscuits and cake there, Binks.
It's a cake that is cooked twice: first when it's baked and rises, secondly when it's sliced, dried and hardened.
( Frisbee TeaBoy, Tue 14 Jun 2011, 9:55, archived)

That's the legal definition, Frizbee boy.
I'd expect a QC to know this. Or perhaps you aren't a real QC after all.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaffa_Cakes#Cake_or_biscuit.3F
( Zuowan, Tue 14 Jun 2011, 9:56, archived)

:O SLANDER!
I can understand where she's coming from with the whole hard = biscuit thing and the twice(bis)-cooked(cuit) doesn't help, but it is more appropriately recognised as a kind of cake, albeit with biscuitty qualities.
( Frisbee TeaBoy, Tue 14 Jun 2011, 10:00, archived)

The Middle French word bescuit is derived from the Latin words bis (twice) and coquere (to cook), and, hence, means "twice-cooked."
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biscuit#Etymology
( Zuowan, Tue 14 Jun 2011, 10:03, archived)

Thanks, Wikipedia.
It also recognises Biscotti as a twice-baked cake.
So what are we going for, the tax definition, the cooking definition or the wikipedia definition?
( Frisbee TeaBoy, Tue 14 Jun 2011, 10:06, archived)

And the biscotti we eat in coffeeshops are cantucci, a variation of biscotti.

( Frisbee TeaBoy, Tue 14 Jun 2011, 10:07, archived)

We've determined that a biscuit is the same thing as a twice-cooked cake.
Americans think a biscuit is a salty scone, the description is there for this reason.
( Zuowan, Tue 14 Jun 2011, 10:08, archived)

I understand, but did Binky determine this?
Her interpretation of biscuits and cake on the merit of going hard/soft was what I was originally challenging.
( Frisbee TeaBoy, Tue 14 Jun 2011, 10:15, archived)

SIMPLE TERMS FOR SIMPLE BOY.

( sleepybinky, Tue 14 Jun 2011, 10:17, archived)

Oh Binky
not the ad hominem argument? :'(
( Frisbee TeaBoy, Tue 14 Jun 2011, 10:20, archived)

*pats head*
not really, no. but never mind.
( sleepybinky, Tue 14 Jun 2011, 10:28, archived)