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Sep 14, 2005 13:30
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tilling biscuits
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Tilling biscuits, that brings back memories. Tilling biscuits and pomegranate marmalade
any English person can tell me what this means?
Thanks!
any English person can tell me what this means?
Thanks!
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3 +1 | baking/mixing/preparing biscuits | María Teresa Taylor Oliver |
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baking/mixing/preparing biscuits
Wikipedia gives several types of "biscuits", but no "tilling". I can't find any references in Google either.
On the En>Es question, Celia suggests "hacer galletas" (making biscuits), as "to till" can mean "to prepare". I suggest the same, taking "tilling" as a verb.
"Baking cookies" is indeed something that can bring fond memories... :)
http://unabridged.merriam-webster.com/cgi-bin/unabridged
1 : to turn or stir (as by plowing, harrowing, or hoeing) and prepare for seed : sow, dress, and raise crops from : CULTIVATE <learned to till the soil -- Eric Newton> <tilled the rocky land -- E.W.Smith> <helping to till the fields -- Will Irwin>
2 dialect England : PREPARE, SET <till a snare>
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biscuit
British English meaning
In British English a biscuit is a hard baked product which in North America would be called a "cookie" or "cracker". Many regional varieties, both sweet and savoury exist, often produced in industrial quantities by large food concerns. Sweet biscuits are commonly eaten as a snack and may contain chocolate, fruit, jam or nuts. Savoury biscuits, sometimes called crackers, are plainer and commonly eaten with cheese following a meal.
A basic biscuit recipe includes flour, shortening (often lard), baking powder or soda, and milk (buttermilk or sweet milk). Common variations involve cheese or sugar.
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Varieties
Common biscuit types include:
* Bath Oliver biscuits
* Bourbon biscuits
* Cream crackers
* Digestive biscuits
o Chocolate Digestive
* Lincoln biscuits
* Nice biscuits
* Rich tea
* Rubber biscuits
* Shortbread
* Water biscuits
Australians use the British English meaning of biscuit. A famous Australian biscuit is the Tim Tam.
On the En>Es question, Celia suggests "hacer galletas" (making biscuits), as "to till" can mean "to prepare". I suggest the same, taking "tilling" as a verb.
"Baking cookies" is indeed something that can bring fond memories... :)
http://unabridged.merriam-webster.com/cgi-bin/unabridged
1 : to turn or stir (as by plowing, harrowing, or hoeing) and prepare for seed : sow, dress, and raise crops from : CULTIVATE <learned to till the soil -- Eric Newton> <tilled the rocky land -- E.W.Smith> <helping to till the fields -- Will Irwin>
2 dialect England : PREPARE, SET <till a snare>
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biscuit
British English meaning
In British English a biscuit is a hard baked product which in North America would be called a "cookie" or "cracker". Many regional varieties, both sweet and savoury exist, often produced in industrial quantities by large food concerns. Sweet biscuits are commonly eaten as a snack and may contain chocolate, fruit, jam or nuts. Savoury biscuits, sometimes called crackers, are plainer and commonly eaten with cheese following a meal.
A basic biscuit recipe includes flour, shortening (often lard), baking powder or soda, and milk (buttermilk or sweet milk). Common variations involve cheese or sugar.
[edit]
Varieties
Common biscuit types include:
* Bath Oliver biscuits
* Bourbon biscuits
* Cream crackers
* Digestive biscuits
o Chocolate Digestive
* Lincoln biscuits
* Nice biscuits
* Rich tea
* Rubber biscuits
* Shortbread
* Water biscuits
Australians use the British English meaning of biscuit. A famous Australian biscuit is the Tim Tam.
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Derek Gill Franßen
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Danke schön! :)
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juvera
: Rachel is right. In any case, what happened to Anzac biscuits, boudoir biscuits and Gipsy cream biscuits, just to mention a few more very famous ones? :)
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