Biscuit From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, search For other uses, see Biscuit (disambiguation). This article or section does not cite its references or sources. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. (help, get involved!) Any material not supported by sources may be challenged and removed at any time. This article has been tagged since October 2006. A biscuit is a small baked bread. The exact meaning varies markedly in different parts of the world, sometimes leading to confusion. The origin of the word 'biscuit' is from Latin via Middle French and means 'twice cooked'. Some of the original biscuits were British naval hard tack. That was passed down to American culture, and hard tack (biscuits) was made through the 19th century. British digestive biscuitsA biscuit is a hard baked product like a small flat cake which in North America may be called a 'cookie' or 'cracker'. The term biscuit also applies to sandwich type biscuits, where a layer of 'cream' or icing is sandwiched between two biscuits. It should be noted, however, that it has become increasingly more common within the UK for 'cookie' to be used to differentiate between the softer, more chewy 'cookie' and the harder, more brittle 'biscuit.' In this respect the British usage of the word biscuit was defined in the defense of a tax judgement found in favor of McVitie's and their product Jaffa Cakes which the Inland Revenue claimed was a biscuit and was therefore liable to value added tax. The successful defense rested on the fact that 'biscuits go soft when
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