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.
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Frisbee TeaBoy, Tue 14 Jun 2011, 9:55,
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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
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Zuowan, Tue 14 Jun 2011, 9:56,
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: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.
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Frisbee TeaBoy, Tue 14 Jun 2011, 10:00,
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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
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Zuowan, Tue 14 Jun 2011, 10:03,
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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?
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Frisbee TeaBoy, Tue 14 Jun 2011, 10:06,
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And the biscotti we eat in coffeeshops are cantucci, a variation of biscotti.(
Frisbee TeaBoy, Tue 14 Jun 2011, 10:07,
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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.
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Zuowan, Tue 14 Jun 2011, 10:08,
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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.
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Frisbee TeaBoy, Tue 14 Jun 2011, 10:15,
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