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[veggiechicken]

IIRC a biscuit is uniformly cooked & a cookie has a crust with a soft centre

Ahhh, so a jaffa cake is a cookie?

.....and a Mince pie

[Hazel at the Hill]

Right - what have you lot been up to whilst I've been baking?



The cookies are cooling on the rack, so you'll have to wait for a little while.

Now I'm nipping up the road for some milk - don't go getting greedy whilst I'm out, will you?

[Tripmeup]

.....and a Mince pie

Is for Christmas.... Best not mention that...

[Bill HH]

Cookies is an American term for biscuits, but as usual we have taken it on board. I read somewhere that American English has 26,000 differences to British English. Candy/sweets, muffler/exhaust, Fanny/bum, bum/tramp etc The list is endless, well 26000 long anyway.

[Tripmeup]

BTW.. Evening all... One more day to the weekend... Noice!!

[veggiechicken]

They were luvly, hazel - when will the next batch be ready?

[Dorothy rouse]

Right - what have you lot been up to whilst I've been baking?

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The cookies are cooling on the rack, so you'll have to wait for a little while.

Now I'm nipping up the road for some milk - don't go getting greedy whilst I'm out, will you?

Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm, nice

[Hazel at the Hill]

Right - back now.

So who wants a coo..........

HANG ON A MOMENT!!

[bearded bloke]

Cookies is an American term for biscuits,

No the Merrycans have both cookies & biscuits bud,the difference is .........

One thing that really distinguishes biscuits from cookies, however, is that biscuits tend to be fully baked and therefore are either crisp or sandy (sablé), whereas Americans love their cookies half-baked so that the edges are crispy and the middle chewy

Taken from ... Food Locker: Biscuits VS Cookies (and two shortbreads)

[veggiechicken]

Who you calling a half-baked cookie

[bearded bloke]

Pretty much what I said earlier I vaguely remember a conversation I had the first time I was offered a cookie in Merryca,"grits" are deffo the most dire thing on the menu over there

[veggiechicken]

Nah, its that white gravy..............

[Bill HH]

No the Merrycans have both cookies & biscuits bud,the difference is .........

Taken from ... Food Locker: Biscuits VS Cookies (and two shortbreads)

You are quite correct but i have an american friend who gets me to send him digestive biscuits, he always says "Hey aint it time you sent some more of those gorgeous cookies"

[bearded bloke]

Nah, its that white gravy..............

Yer that's bad,but grits are worse (we need a barf button)

[RedThorn]

Yup a biscuit is baked twice and goes soft when stale, a cookie is baked once and goes hard when stale.....



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