Adinnieken on 10 November 2012
| blkfish92 said: Why does Europe call cookies biscuits? What do you call biscuits, cookies? |
Biscuit means twice baked, unleavened cakes. Thus biscuits are well cooked and dry. Biscuits can be both cookies (sweet) or crackers (savory). Crisps also can be crackers, but typically are potato chips or tortilla chips. Finally, chips are potato fries (French, American, steak, etc). The difference between a chip and a fry is the fact that chips typically are thicker cut potato fries.
Cookies means small cake. They're typically leavened, but not always. While they're typically baked, they don't always have to be baked.
A Jaffe cake is actually a cake. Think of a shortbread cake but smaller. They're very soft, with a cake-like consistency. They're not crisp in any sense of the word like a cookie would be.
