How To Use Biscuit In A Sentence

Larger butter pieces (not huge, of course, but quite a bit larger than “wet sand”) result in a flakier biscuit. 2009 March | Baking Bites
(Not to be confused with what we call cookies)To serve Devon, or Cornwall clotted cream would desecrate a good southern biscuit (and be a waste of the cream really, I prefer it on saffron buns)a bit of plain cream, fresh butter, and cane syrup poured over a hot biscuit is ambrosia. Scones, Cream and Jam - a West Country cream tea
By 1939, it had 30 British bakeries and introduced low-price tea biscuits, previously a luxury only afforded by the middle classes.
Meanwhile, Angela Brockway and other members of the reading group are struggling to carry on without their friend: There were about 14 of us who all used to sit round her big Victorian table in her conservatory with mugs of tea and coffee and piles of what we called 'posh' biscuits. Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph, Sunday Telegraph
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Biscuit base filled with lemon scented Ilalian ricotta cheese, decorated with strawberries and red currants.
I got sick after a biscuit, a strip of bacon, and an egg.
Now he sits before a half-drunk coffee, a plate of untouched biscuits and an overflowing ashtray.
Yes, some teachers and parents reflexively hand out the equivalent of a doggie biscuit every few minutes, the result being that kids habituate to it and it has no impact. Alfie Kohn: Criticizing (Common Criticisms of) Praise
She explained moreover that wherever she happened to be she found a dropped thread to pick up, a ragged edge to repair, some familiar appetite in ambush, jumping out as she approached, yet appeasable with a temporary biscuit. The Ambassadors
Plus you will be amazed to see a scene stolen by a British Bourbon biscuit. Times, Sunday Times
Every region has its own Easter bread, biscuits and cakes, often topped or shaped with Christian symbols like crosses, fish, lambs and eggs.
On top of nicking my biscuits they had also made a right mess when they made the tea.
Instead, the hardcover edition of Seabiscuit: An American Legend remained on The New York Times best-seller list for 30 weeks.
Put the digestive biscuits in a food processor and blitz into fine crumbs. The Sun
Lightly beat the egg white and brush over biscuit tops.
Picking up three crisps and two biscuits, he slides them around the coffee table to make his point. Times, Sunday Times
Discovery Cabin biscuits were the standard dish for breakfast, and when it was ready a sustained cry of 'hoosh' brought the sleepers from their bags, wiping reindeer hairs from their eyes. The Worst Journey in the World Antarctic 1910-1913
For dessert they presented mouth-watering vanilla sabayon served in a champagne flute and layered with fresh fruit and biscuit.
Going to the kitchen window, the biscuit tin still in her hands, she saw an extraordinary sight.
I eat less chocolate and fewer biscuits than I used to.
Laura put the receiver down and made tea, opened the biscuit box and selected a chocolate gold grain. THE IMAGE OF LAURA
A fire was burning in the grate to warm the salon, and ratafia biscuits and a flask of sherry were arrayed on a side table. The Dressmaker
Pensioners can have a cup of tea and a biscuit for 5p and all the gardeners roll up to dunk their digestives in the afternoon sunshine.
In a hideout near Traversara, the story went, he and five of his companions dallied with ten whores while they ate “maccheroni and gnocchi, lamb and chicken, mutton and focaccia studded with pork fat, biscuits and ring-cakes with rosolio and zabaglione, jam tart and whipped cream.” Delizia!
Breakfast is always the same: instant oatmeal, coffee, and stale biscuits.
Pour a little rose water in to fruit salads, use it to flavour thick syrups or add it to pastry and biscuit doughs, or whipped cream.
I left the rest of my shopping and ran for the car, knocking over a display of biscuits in my haste to dodge people and escape.
They managed to buy basics such as long-life milk, cereal, chocolate and biscuits, but Paul was determined to bring his family to safety.
They gave the officers to understand that far from wishing to act as enemies, they were willing to afford the shipwrecked people all the assistance in their power; but these barbarians shewed, on all occasions, a perfidiousness which is peculiar to the inhabitants of these climates; when the brig had sent biscuit on shore, they seized the half of it, and a few moments after, sold it at an exorbitant price, to those from whom they had stolen it. Naufrage de la frigate la Méduse. English
The Mayor, Cllr John Walsh, welcomed the guests for coffee and biscuits in his parlour, describing the town as ‘the jewel of the North-west’.
Debbie grabs Biscuit's trunk and tries to yank her free, but the raccoon's teeth refuse to unclamp. How the Rabies Epidemic Is Affecting Deer and Other Wildlife
Nowadays however, in the average suburban home, afternoon tea is likely to be just a biscuit or small cake and a mug oftea, usually produced using a teabag. Sacrilege!
Spoon the mixture on to the biscuit base and cook in a pre-heated oven.
The packed lunches were found to be high in fat because of crisps, chocolate bars, biscuits and the amount of butter and margarine used.
But this, spotted today at about 3pm, really takes the digestive biscuit.
If you like, you can finish it with crumbled amaretti biscuits, sticks of shortbread, and of course, your butterscotch sauce.
But, being God, he used granite instead of biscuit.
For every chocolate chip cookie, there is a manky wafer biscuit.
I remember the Sunday afternoon teas at my grandparents' house as a child, the table groaning with various cakes and biscuits.
Bake the biscuits for 20-25 minutes, until the tops are lightly browned.
And in the dusty biscuit-making place of the potters, among the felspar mills in the furnace rooms of the metal workers, among the incandescent lakes of crude Eadhamite, the blue canvas clothing was on man, woman and child. When the Sleeper Wakes
Self-rising flour and cake and biscuit mixes have decreased the demand for baking soda as an important baking ingredient.
I dreamt last night that I went out for a drink with biscuitware and that halfway through the night he suddenly jumped up from his seat to perform an all-singing all-dancing musical number, accompanied by a well-rehearsed large chorus all in spangly costume. The One That's Still Making Me Chuckle
There was an assortment of free drinks on offer and a couple of plates of biscuits.
On the nose vibrant crisp cox's pippins are heartened by biscuity aromas.
He opens it and there's just a dry biscuit inside. Times, Sunday Times
This recipe makes about thirty biscuits.
The first series were full of elaborate, post-nouvelle cuisine dishes - black hexagonal plates, kiwi fruit garnishes, elaborate vegetable combinations, home-made biscuits and endless other little fiddly bits.
Work snack warning Eating biscuits and cakes at work is contributing to the obesity epidemic and poor oral health, dentists have said. Times, Sunday Times
The biscuity layer stopped the texture from becoming too blandly smooth. Times, Sunday Times
Afternoon tea includes home-made cakes and biscuits, and on three of the six nights a cheese board is produced at the end of dinner. Times, Sunday Times
It's a quick mix of three forms of cranberries - perfect for spooning onto toasted holiday breads, stollen, crackers, and biscuits to satisfy during those early morning hours.
I had to smile when I saw a man trying to coax the dog with a biscuit. THE DOG LISTENER: Learning the Language of your Best Friend
WB25: A Night of Wine and Food in Florence for Two with Award Winning Sommelier Services Enjoy an evening for two persons in Florence, Tuscany in a historical Trattoria with a complete menu from "crostini" to their typical biscuits and soups and meat and eveything you can expect from a Trattoria that's been running for more than 100 years The Happiness Project
Using a biscuit or scone cutter, cut out rounds as big or as little as you like.
I've been with some high-maintenance women in my time but my daughter takes the biscuit.
Sweets and biscuits have a lot of empty calories in them.
The puff-and-serve chapattis, high-protein biscuits and vermicelli kheer are doing well at the retail market place, thank you.
The bread/biscuits/cake had gone stale.
As I nibbled at the biscuit my case was discussed over my head. Seminary Boy
Following the event the school students retired to the community centre where they feasted on sweets, chocolates and biscuits.
In fact, it is a genuine snack spot with scones, teacakes, cakes and biscuits being the staple fare.
Hemp seed whole, hulled or crushed for oil are used in food products such as muesli bars, cakes, breads, biscuits, butter paste, non-dairy milk, tofu, cheese and ice cream. WN.com - Business News
Next time you are outside with a fire, make a biscuit dough, a simple one with whole wheat flour, baking powder, salt and the like.
Because of the gorgeously melting, crumbly texture of the finished biscuit, it will be difficult to roll out. Times, Sunday Times
The biscuit tin is completely full of hair. The Sun
Eggshell white, perfumed with anise and intricately printed using carved molds, crisp springerle have been a holiday sweet in Bavaria and across central Europe since at least the Middle Ages, when, during mid-winter festivals, the poor offered animal-shaped biscuits to the gods in place of actual livestock. Wunderbar Cookies
A digestive biscuit, sometimes referred to as a sweetmeal biscuit, is a semi-sweet biscuit or cookie, originating in the United Kingdom, and popular there.
The cheese came served with water biscuits and an impressive array of preserved fruit, walnuts and grapes.
There are also plenty of nostalgic nods back to Webb's 1970s childhood when eccles cakes were referred to as squashed fly cakes and bourbon biscuits were regularly remarked on as looking like something you might give to the dog. Food Britannia by Andrew Webb – review
There was a very convivial atmosphere and here at Norton Rose we served tea and biscuits for the police. Times, Sunday Times
In the UK, biscuits are zero-rated while "biscuits wholly or partly covered in chocolate" are not, but HMRC says Twix is actually neither of these. Twix takes the biscuit
I reach across the table and fork off a chunk of gravy-smothered biscuit.
If not, drop me an e-mail. biscuitblog is the name of the e-mail and the provider is earthlink which is a dot net. see you have to write it out like this or face the deluge of spams from people who scour blogs to grab e-mail addresses. Archive 2007-01-01
However, I did make some chicken and dumplings the way my mama makes it and surprisingly, my English hubby really liked it, even though here a dumpling is a whole 'nother thing - more like a biscuit (American biscuit, not a cookie!) that floats on top of soup - crunchy on top and a bit soggy on the bottom, and equally delicious. Tex-Mex chicken and dumplings recipe | Homesick Texan
Barnabas leapt from the sofa and dashed after the biscuit that had skidded under a wing chair.
We sipped tea and nibbled biscuits at her white lacy table.
Blend together the coarsely crushed biscuit crumbs and melted butter in a food blender.
It became a challenge and thrill to steal biscuits and cakes and eat them without anyone finding out. Beyond Chaotic Eating
Crackers and sweet biscuits reinforced one of the tins of oatcakes, which had stood throughout the meal on every table.
With 842 lots, the sale will be in two parts: fine toys, biscuit tins and toy soldiers next Tuesday; and mechanical music, automata, dolls and doll's houses on October 30.
One of my strongest early memories is the old corner store with its wooden floor, wooden bench and tins full of packets of biscuits.
The itty-bitty biscuits and cornbread muffins remain in fine form, so the arrival of the breadbasket here is something to anticipate.
They are asked to work out how many biscuits there are if there are five jars and each jar contains four biscuits. Times, Sunday Times
Work snack warning Eating biscuits and cakes at work is contributing to the obesity epidemic and poor oral health, dentists have said. Times, Sunday Times
These biscuits contain oats.
Jill dunked her ginger biscuit in her tea.
There was only one dessert of hazelnut biscuits, which was drizzled with lemon honey and served with apricot and peaches in amaretto.
Spoon a little icing on to each biscuit, spread almost to the edges and decorate as desired.
He took the opportunity to stretch his legs and eat some biscuits and bananas.
I inquired as I slathered cream onto my biscuit.
The dregs of his dunked biscuits scummed the surface of the tea.
If you suffer from morning sickness, try the following home remedies: nibble on a ginger biscuit before getting up and try to eat a little something often - perhaps a biscuit, oatcake or crispbread.
Gulping down a cup of tea, he ate a couple of biscuits, and then shouldering his dustcoat, declared himself ready. Ultima Thule
Would you like some cake or biscuit?
The sitting held was at a hotel auditorium in the city, where Commission members listened over tea and biscuits to passionate outbursts on violence against animals.
After the initial biscuit firing, all tableware is glazed by hand, before the glost firing.
The pizza base (handmade with organic flour) was evidently homespun, with its biscuity, nicely burned crust.
I, at this point in time, was stuffing myself with so many biscuits that I was finding it hard to keep them inside my face.
Another day we make semi-freddo, combining the richness of heavy cream with bitter dark chocolate and the nutty flavour of amaretti biscuits.
Providentially a small barrel of water, a cag of wine, some biscuit, and a few muskets and cartouch boxes, had been thrown into the boat. Voyage of H.M.S. Pandora Despatched to Arrest the Mutineers of the 'Bounty' in the South Seas, 1790-1791
Another day we make semi-freddo, combining the richness of heavy cream with bitter dark chocolate and the nutty flavour of amaretti biscuits.
Cheese-flavoured biscuits have their origins in medieval cheese tarts and pastries; but the totally plain, unsweetened biscuit for eating with cheese did not come into use until the 18th century.
Store in an airtight container for up to a week, but be warned that the caramel can seep into the biscuits in particularly humid conditions. Times, Sunday Times
This form has large clusters of creamy flowers, which dry to the colour of a Rich Tea biscuit.
The buffet, on the other hand, consisted of a catering-size sack of salt and vinegar crisps, some biscuits and four sausage rolls.
I like my cake to have some chunks of biscuit through it, so I don't crush them all completely, though if you want a smoother consistency cake, you can.
Dinner consisted of a beef stroganoff, followed by a choice of two deserts, and then a shed-load of cheese and biscuits.
It came with two large orders of mashed potatoes and coleslaw and a bunch of biscuits.
I really felt like I was going to regurgitate the biscuits I'd consumed at my brother's house.
Or does it give you the opportunity to stock up on those little bars of soap and packets of biscuits? The Sun
Unicef, for example, gives long-life high-protein biscuits made in Norway.
New Year's Eve is my favorite because we are treated to saltfish (cod fish) and ackee with dumplings (fried biscuits) and yams (white) and boiled green bananas for breakfast. Trina Sargalski: Festive Sorrel Wine for the Holidays
If you don't want to go beyond white, update your color with tone-on-tone neutrals like ecru, oyster, almond or biscuit.
At first his slip painting on biscuit porcelain simply peeled off.
We eat it with breadsticks, descendants of the biscotto, the twice-baked everlasting ship's biscuits that kept a trading empire alive.
United Kennel Club do much the same thing, but the AKC is the big biscuit in the basket. Slate Magazine
After brunch in one of the many small cafes selling sweet potato snacks, dried donut cakes and biscuits, we make our way over the bridge, past the llama rides and into the throng of people waiting for the next funicular.
So Ashley falls apart - again," Seabiscuit chortles. 'American Idol' 2011 rolls on through Hollywood Week
Pull the biscuit off the stick and fill the hole with rich organic butter and home-made jam. Times, Sunday Times
So I set to and ransacked the lockers, where, amongst a vast variety of miscellaneous matters, I was not long in finding a bottle of very tolerable rum, some salt junk, some biscuit, and a goglet or porous earthen jar of water, with some capital cigars. Tom Cringle's Log
Crush biscuits either in a polythene bag using a rolling pin, or in a food processor.
It was a sticky, toffee-like, delicious, crunchy, biscuity, sticky in your teeth kind of affair with the sesame flavouring it with desirable nuttiness.
Banana juice also can be used for making wine while the banana powder could be a basic starting material for making banana biscuits.
I find my self somewhat underwhelmed. I often feel that I'm missing the point with the Bourbon biscuit and by rights should like it a lot more than I do.
You've done some stupid things before, but this really takes the biscuit!
However to complete my snack I also enjoyed a mug of tea and a piece of refrigerated cake, a biscuit base with chocolate topping.
I have made chutney and biscuits and a cake and a ham. Times, Sunday Times
Made from vitreous china in biscuit, white, and black, the rectangular sink measures 21 by 13 inches.
But it was rough even at the dawn of the new century when the Strokes emerged from the Lower East Side read: Dwight School with their post-punk guitars and biscuit-tin drums to capture a city's insouciant attitude and inveigle the rest of the country with it. Disco Donors, Punk Pioneers
I was given less cake and fewer biscuits than she had.
You can buy biscuits, sugar, soap and tea at the grocer's.
“Dives Pragmaticus”: simnels, buns, cakes, biscuits, comfits, caraways, and cracknels: and this is the first occurrence of the bun that I have hitherto been able to detect. Old Cookery Books and Ancient Cuisine
Duncan carried his soup mug and a half-eaten packet of water biscuits into his sitting-room.
‘You're talking rubbish,’ said I, incensed that a flibbertigibbet biscuit such as the pink iced ones with white swirls could be held in higher regard than a Rich Tea which, as any fool knows, is a noble biscuit with real dignity.
Children should be encouraged to eat fewer high fat snacks such as crisps and biscuits and to avoid consuming a large proportion of total energy from sweetened drinks.
On a plate in front of him was piled a pyramid of flat white biscuits.
You greedy pig! You're not having another chocolate biscuit!
Someone who chooses a triple-choc biscuit instead of an oatmeal and raisin one is a sybarite, a pleasure-seeker. Times, Sunday Times
And now The Beta Band are dead, King Biscuit Time can release gems like Kwangchow. Creased or Folded? hecklerspray Tells You the Way it is
So he asked a friend who made biscuits for dogs how to go about it. Times, Sunday Times
For a stronger flavour, sprinkle the sponge biscuits with orange juice and extra Cointreau.
She had three digestive biscuits, a glass of limeade, and a cup of weak tea. CORALINE
Made from those biscuits you get with coffee in hotels, we want to devour this by the jarful. The Sun
It can be a tasty bit of pâté on a wee biscuit or a squirt of refreshing skin conditioner for the fevered brow.
Remove from the oven and let the biscuits cool on the baking tray. Times, Sunday Times
She put the 350 francs she got for each bottle in a biscuit tin under her marriage girdles in the armoire. WHITE LIES
(mature female) to inhuman (hotwaterjar) calefaction, the stimulation of matutinal contact, the economy of mangling done on the premises in the case of trousers accurately folded and placed lengthwise between the spring mattress (striped) and the woollen mattress (biscuit section). Ulysses
The table, made of maple and walnut, features curved legs, intricate dovetailed joints made by hand and dowels and biscuits to connect the various pieces.
Try to avoid fatty foods like cakes and biscuits.
Tonight, the bakers have to make signature biscuits that express their innermost being. Times, Sunday Times
As far as the feathery biscuits are concerned, the word feathery says it all. Archive 2006-08-01
Blitz the biscuits in a food processor 2 until they resemble fine crumbs, then add to the melted butter. The Sun
Stir in the biscuit crumbs and mix together. The Sun
Crush the biscuits finely before adding them to the mixture.
The relief material includes biscuits, water, candles, matchsticks and bread.
There are soups, sauces, breads, margarines, confectionery, peanut butter, cordials and soft drinks, biscuits, and yoghurts.
Eat water biscuits or oatmeal biscuits - without butter.
During the afternoon he'd made a small quantity of Recipe 179 - enough to fill three biscuit tins.
The packed lunches were found to be high in fat because of crisps, chocolate bars, biscuits and the amount of butter and margarine used.
Let cool and serve with ladyfingers (biscuits à la cuiller or boudoirs), or substitute another kind of light-textured cookie.
Feeding bananas and Bourbon biscuits to cyclists in Yorkshire. Times, Sunday Times
They are inoffensively patterned and meticulously maintained, with fluffy robes in the bathroom, DVDs by the TV and home-made biscuits at the bedside.
I forgo interaction with eight biscuit tins surmounted by illuminated photographs.
The government hadn't supplied the surveyors with tents, so they rigged bivouacs to sleep in, toasted food over the fire and munched on hard square ship's biscuits.
Generous and hospitable to a fault, he does not forget to bring in all kinds of edibles, from fruits to biscuits and cereals.
She was feeding them digestive biscuits under the table. Times, Sunday Times
Anyway she was the type of person who, whilst thinking doilies are infra dig, arranges cakes and biscuits both beautifully and with military precision on what she called ‘lined dishes’.
In a wood-fired oven by the entrance a well-practised chef turns out gallettes auvergnates, delicate pizza-like tarts whose base is akin to water biscuit, whose top comprises ham, saucisson, cantal, mushrooms and egg.
Miss Devenish, obviously used to these interruptions, offered Dougal another digestive biscuit.
And you say she's opening your letters now? Oh, that really takes the biscuit!
Pour a little rose water in to fruit salads, use it to flavour thick syrups or add it to pastry and biscuit doughs, or whipped cream.
"Many men are genuinely proud of their culinary skill and see nothing undignified or unmasculine in being able to turn out a batch of fluffy biscuits."
Interest from the world's major food companies in bidding for United Biscuits has been muted. China's Bright Food Considers Buying U.K.'s United Biscuits
Birds were fed ad libitum with a mixed diet consisting of mealworms [(Tenebrio sp.)], moistened Monkey Biscuits [(Hill's Products, Premium Nutritional Products, Mission, Kansas)], wild berries, and fresh vitaminized water.
One successful poultryman I am acquainted with gives, as the first feed, dog biscuit crushed. Outdoor Sports and Games
The refrigerated dough business includes private label toaster pastries and specialty biscuits that are sold to retailers. SFGate: Top News Stories
The same can be done with cake or biscuits and used as a topping for crumbles and puddings. The Sun
You'll find that most muffin and biscuit recipes call for much more oil. The 8-Week Cholesterol Cure
He drank small quantities of alcohol and on one occasion ate ten chocolate biscuits.
All the women have had to eat is a small biscuit bar and a sip of juice. Times, Sunday Times
On a plate in front of him was piled a pyramid of flat white biscuits.
The origin of the name of these dainty shortbread biscuits is interesting.
Conditions were tough and rations very basic; men were expected to march and fight after meals of biscuit and cheese. The English Civil War: A People's History
Mix together crushed biscuits with butter or margarine. The Sun
The worst case scenario is a sausage biscuit with egg, hash browns and orange juice combination.
He emptied the biscuits onto the plate.
Made from vitreous china in biscuit, white, and black, the rectangular sink measures 21 by 13 inches.
Her racks hang with pretty jewelled objects in smoky lilac, pink topaz and biscuit, contrasted with intense hues of sunshine, azure, coral and violet.
They finished off the week slurping fruit smoothies and eating healthy biscuits they made themselves.
If you don't want to go beyond white, update your color with tone-on-tone neutrals like ecru, oyster, almond or biscuit.
There was a roasted pig, live chickens, platters of Chinese biscuits, fruit, alcohol and so much food!
The biscuits can be made palatable with some butter or margarine and a spread. The Hayfever Handbook - a summer survival guide
Cut the centre of one set of biscuits with a pastry cutter. Times, Sunday Times
The entrance fee of £1.50 will cover the cost of tea or coffee with biscuits.
Meanwhile, the dessert is partly plated up: a little biscuit tuile and a few blueberries go onto the rows of plates spread along the tables.
For example, the story is set in some nameless east coast U.S. town and when the stolen child of the title decides to run away, he stuffs his pockets with biscuits, not cookies and they weren't talking about the baking soda variety. Reading, Writing, Cooking and Crafting: The middle bit
`Janet wants to see you later," Nurse said as she produced a cup of malted milk and some biscuits and set them before the convalescent. ADRIENNE AND THE CHALET SCHOOL
I'm just eating some warm, ungarnished, biscuit pudding; and you're absolutely right, it is first-rate comfort food! The proof is in the biscuit pudding | Homesick Texan

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