Different names for possibly similar products
By Judy Evans
@JudyEv (339499)
Rockingham, Australia
December 3, 2018 2:07am CST
While chatting with Susan (@HazySue) and Lenore (@sallypup) on Susan’s discussion, http://www.mylot.com/post/3232930/chrristmas-cookies, I mentioned lattice biscuits and milk biscuits. Rather than try to explain what each was I decided to photograph them.
The top photo is one variety of what I call ‘milk biscuits’ as it’s what mothers my age might give their very young children. You’d soak the biscuit in milk and feed it to them. They are a very plain biscuit. Marie is one type and Milk Arrowroot another. I crush these to make my apricot coconut slice.
The other photo shows lattice biscuits which I use to make a lemon lattice slice. It’s my new favourite. The filling is mostly cream cheese with some lemon juice. I should have brushed the crumbs off before I took the photo.
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@allknowing (136082)
• India
3 Dec 18
I can think of cookies and biscuits being the same although there are several forms in either of those.
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@allknowing (136082)
• India
4 Dec 18
@JudyEv I get to see it at every confectionery page I open We here in India do not use that term either.
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@snowy22315 (180452)
• United States
4 Dec 18
Honestly, I am not sure that we have anything similar here. I can't think of anything.
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@snowy22315 (180452)
• United States
5 Dec 18
@JudyEv it looks the closest to a filled wafer cookie. There is a Dutch thing called Sfroooenwaffle, but thAt has caramel in it. I meant wafer cookie. I was typing that on the kindle.
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@sallypup (61000)
• Centralia, Washington
5 Dec 18
The cookie in the top photo looks like something that I have seen when I went to Canada. The second one reminds me of waffles! When I was a girl in St. Paul, Minnesota I had an amazing dessert. I think I bought it at Woolworths, a five and dime store. It was a large ice cream sandwich, a block of ice cream placed between two waffles. Heavenly! Never seen anything like it since. Thanks for the photos.
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@BelleStarr (61102)
• United States
4 Dec 18
We have similar types of biscuits here, maybe 15 years ago we wouldn't have had them but now we are much more international in the food department of our larger stores. It is like calling cake sponge, here we wash the sink with a sponge we don't eat it lol
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@JudyEv (339499)
• Rockingham, Australia
4 Dec 18
There are still a lot of differences in terms that's for sure.
@Hate2Iron (15727)
• Canada
20 Jan 19
Our version for babies would be arrowroots or rusks but have never heard of the lattice biscuits but they do kind of remind me of Triscuits now that I think about it. Love the idea of the filling!!
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@JudyEv (339499)
• Rockingham, Australia
21 Jan 19
We have Milk Arrowroot biscuits which are very similar but these were always given to babies too. And we used to have rusks.
@responsiveme (22926)
• India
4 Dec 18
I love those Marie biscuits with tea . Use it as base sometimes for sweet dishes
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@JudyEv (339499)
• Rockingham, Australia
4 Dec 18
The top ones aren't rich. They don't really have much flavour at all. The slice I made has lattice biscuits top and bottom.
