jimfdowning Posted February 19, 2011 Share Posted February 19, 2011 Apparantly according to the dictionary: A biscuit goes soft when stale & a cake goes hard when stale. So whats a soft cookie? It should be a biscuit but it goes hard when stale.... Whats your thoughts? Does this break the rules? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maxyross Posted February 19, 2011 Share Posted February 19, 2011 It's a cake. Proper biscuits are baked twice, which gives them their name (from the Latin). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gnvqsos Posted February 19, 2011 Share Posted February 19, 2011 It's a cake. Proper biscuits are baked twice, which gives them their name (from the Latin). I thought it was a derivation from the Frecnh bis (X 2) and coquere meaning to cook as in **** au van(cooked in wine); there again French is a Romantic tongue based on Latin.Cookies are USA based and have no authenticity except they are over sweet,laden with fat or shortening and are a poor substitute for the proper biscuit.I understand they were cooked (inadvertently) accidentally by Marie Antoinette who baked some cake twice while feeding the insurrectionists of Paris in 1790.It was her who said let them eat cake,but in fact the peasants were left to gorge on Nice and Bourbons due to her coque up in the cuisine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gnvqsos Posted February 19, 2011 Share Posted February 19, 2011 It's a cake. Proper biscuits are baked twice, which gives them their name (from the Latin). I thought it was a derivation from the Frecnh bis (X 2) and coquere meaning to cook as in **** au van(cooked in wine); there again French is a Romantic tongue based on Latin.Cookies are USA based and have no authenticity except they are over sweet,laden with fat or shortening and are a poor substitute for the proper biscuit.I understand they were cooked accidentally by Marie Antoinette who baked some cake twice while feeding the insurrectionists of Paris in 1790.It was her who said let them eat cake,but in fact the peasants were left to gorge on Nice and Bourbons due to her coque up in the cuisine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MagnetMan Posted February 19, 2011 Share Posted February 19, 2011 The definition from what i know is what happens to the water ... a cake has water stored in and so in air looses it.. (goes dry).. a biscuit has not much water in and so gains it over time (goes soft .. moist) A soft cookie looses the water going dry ... so is a cake... i think thats the same argument jafa used for their "buiscuits" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maxyross Posted February 19, 2011 Share Posted February 19, 2011 It may very well be French but I think that coquere is a Latin verb and bis is "twice". We are probably both correct. France might be a different place if Marie Antoinette had baked Hob-Nobs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pinner Posted February 20, 2011 Share Posted February 20, 2011 And Jaffa cakes? Did you know that there's been several years of litigation re whether they're cakes or biscuits for VAT purposes! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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