{"id":10698,"date":"2018-08-19T13:02:00","date_gmt":"2018-08-19T13:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/?p=10698"},"modified":"2026-01-15T20:59:37","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T20:59:37","slug":"biscuit-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/?p=10698","title":{"rendered":"Biscuit…."},"content":{"rendered":"

Our word for today is biscuit. I love this word because it has a cluster of meanings. First it’s a food. A biscuit is a British cookie. Here’s a site<\/a> that rates 21 of them, with phrases such as,<\/p>\n

“As British as Michael Caine, roundabouts and glaring at but not saying anything to people who jump the queue, these are little pieces of perfection…<\/p>\n

My husband’s aunt, always served her shortbread biscuits with Sherry – a nice touch! I only make cookies (biscuits) at Christmas, when I make so many we’re still eating them on Valentines Day.<\/p>\n

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In North America, a biscuit is a slightly leavened savoury scone. It’s a staple in dishes, such as, chicken and biscuits. My local Second Cup, before it closed, often sold cheese scones (biscuits), I prefer cranberry, but I would buy cheese, over Blueberry with white chocolate – too sweet.<\/p>\n

However, for a biscuit that’s really savoury, it should be a “bisque,” which is a soup of French origin.
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“It is thought the name is derived from <\/span>Biscay<\/i>, as in <\/span>Bay of Biscay<\/a>,<\/span>[2]<\/a><\/sup> but the crustaceans are certainly <\/span>bis cuites<\/i> “twice cooked” (by analogy to a <\/span>biscuit<\/a>) for they are first <\/span>saut\u00e9ed<\/a> lightly in their shells, then simmered in wine and aromatic ingredients, before being strained, followed by the addition of cream.”<\/span>
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\nI have had the traditional lobster bisque only once. However, I do make pureed soups often. I always make a tomato “bisque” from the fresh tomatoes in the garden. Yesterday, I even made a cooked cucumber and avocado soup, from two runaway cucumbers I found in the weeds. It was delicious! I think, I have to do some shrimp or even smoked salmon bisques, when I need a little Paris in my life!<\/p>\n

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Finally, biscuit is also another name for porcelain, particularly, unglazed porcelain, biscuit ware, used for various types of pottery, figurines, and the delicate faces of antique dolls.<\/p>\n

I am fascinated with dolls. I was given a doll every year I can remember, until the age of 12. I still have my mother’s doll. I have books on dolls – how to dress them, how to make their fine porcelain heads and how to assemble their articulated bodies. I also have books on cloth dolls<\/a>, again how to sew them, stuff them and embroider their whimsical faces. I have knit period costumes for barbie dolls and I may just have to buy this book of paper dolls from the Yves St. Laurent collection<\/a> – not bisque, but I can dream.<\/p>\n

The pictures? Bits of biscuits and bisque.<\/p>\n

Have a charming day!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Our word for today is biscuit. I love this word because it has a cluster of meanings. First it’s a food. A biscuit is a British cookie. Here’s a site that rates 21 of them, with phrases such as, “As British as Michael Caine, roundabouts and glaring at but not saying anything to people who […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9066,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,13,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-reality","category-unicorns","category-words"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10698"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10698\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10700,"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10698\/revisions\/10700"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}