View Biscuits vs cookies
Bakerina, goddess of the kitchen, and Boot is clear on this; sweet, yummy, crumbly things suitable for dipping in coffee are called biscuits.
cookies may only be referred to when discussing different types of monsters.
Actually, Bakerina is going to sell Boot up the river on this one, just this once. Bakerina is both an omnivore and a polyglot (an omniglot, atcually, she say s below*)—and finds the use of both biscuit and cookie to be correct. Bakerina’s beloved Nigel Slater finds “cookie” to be a precious and affected word for “biscuit,” while more than one of her American beloveds considers “biscuit” to be the precious and affected word. Bakerina believes that if nomenclature has become so flexible that restaurant menus can boast of “eggplant napoleons” without cracking so much as a smile, or an ironic wink (or even an egg) then there is room for plenty of terminology.
Bakerina is a bit of a longwinded blowhard, which should surprise no one.*
Boot is surprised it took Bakerina this long to find and correct this entry.
Bakerina knows that she has been terribly slack at contributing to the Scwiki, as well as at keeping up with her friends. Bakerina is sorry. Again, this should surprise no one.
you have forgotten me? ze crumbcake?
(e mucks up lotsa stuff whenever she finds the time to look at scwiki, which isn’t often)
Category:Food -> Recipes