Fig Rolls - Biscuit Or Cake?

barry1010 | 09:56 Fri 21st Feb 2025 | Food & Drink

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My favourite snack but I haven't eaten one in at least 20 years for various reasons.

They are soft like cake, not crunchy, crispy or 'snappy' like a biscuit.

They go hard when stale, like cake, not soft like biscuits.

I say cake although I ate them like biscuits.

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davebro3

I think the criterion established with Jaffa cakes was that if it goes hard over time it's cake, if it goes soft it's biscuit.

Old_Geezer

Never given it a thought.

Isn't the rule that, leave them too long and biscuits go hard while cake goes soft ?

Or there isn't there this thing about biscuits being twice baked, so cake isn't ?

davebro3

Cake has more moisture content - bis cuit comes from the French - twice cooked.

Old_Geezer

I might have made the first post if I didn't need to keep on correcting the massive number of differences between what I typed on the keyboard and what showed up on the screen. Corrections take about twice as long as the perfect typing beforehand.

barry1010

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Yes, fig rolls go hard so I say cake

barry1010

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OG, biscuits go soft; cake goes hard

barry1010

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Most biscuits aren't cooked twice today

Old_Geezer

Yes that was what I intended to type and was convinced that I did. It merely goes to justify that which I complained about in my subsequent post. It also shows how absolutely vital it is for a serious discussion forum to have the facility to be able to edit posts, regardless of invalid attempts to justify otherwise.

Old_Geezer

...had done...

Not ...did...

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