What are cookies called in England?

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asked Dec 12, 2023 in Other-Food Drink by pedpvola (1,140 points)
What are cookies called in England?

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answered Sep 14, 2024 by Nabilss (11,160 points)
Cookies in England are called biscuits.

In England they refer to cookies as biscuits which are a baked snack that is small, flat and sweet.

In England they sugar cookies are called sugar biscuits as well as jumbles.

Sugar cookies are also called gemmells, crybabies, gimbletts, cimbellines, jumbles, and plunketts.

In England cookies are also called digestives.

The term digestive is derived from the belief that they had antacid properties around the time the biscuit was first introduced due to the use of sodium bicarbonate as an ingredient.

Historically, some producers used diastatic malt extract to "digest" some of the starch that existed in flour prior to baking.

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