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You Say Cookie, I Say Biscuit…Let’s Make Them All This Holiday Season!

December 22, 2016 by J.A. Lyon 13 Comments

18th century biscuits

Today we call them cookies, but in the 18th century (and still today, if you’re British) they were known as “biscuits.” To give you a taste of colonial Virginia, we’ve teamed up with Historic Foodways Apprentice Tyler Wilson to bring you three different biscuit recipes, all with varying levels of difficulty, to try with your family this holiday season.

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Filed Under: Historic Trades, History, Recipes Tagged With: biscuits, cookies, foodways, ginger bread, gingerbread, historic foodways, historic trades, history, marzipan, ratafia cakes, sugar biscuits

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