TIL: “The Old French word bescuit is derived from the Latin words bis (twice) and coquere, coctus (to cook, cooked), and, hence, means “twice-cooked”. This is because biscuits were originally cooked in a twofold process: first baked, and then dried out in a slow oven.”
It’s not a biscuit, it’s a scone. Biscuits are cooked twice (it’s in the name), you bake them then dry them.
TIL: “The Old French word bescuit is derived from the Latin words bis (twice) and coquere, coctus (to cook, cooked), and, hence, means “twice-cooked”. This is because biscuits were originally cooked in a twofold process: first baked, and then dried out in a slow oven.”
Exactly. So, many cookies are in fact biscuits, as they’re dried out to give them a longer shelf life.