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Baking biscuits (Cookies) is one of those tasks that everyone applies meaningless sentiment too. Advertisers tell us it's homey and loving, and also difficult, so buy our tube of goo. Bakers rely on the smells and sights to make us buy their sugary paste circles, and everyone reflects on how much 'X' must love 'Y' when they bake them something.
It's all a lie.
Biscuits are not hard. They are in fact, supremely easy. There is no complicated technique, no hard to find ingredients, no tricky oven settings or odd processes involved. Cream. Mix. Portion. Bake. Cool. Eat.
Biscuits are simple, forgiving, and no more emotionally involved then any other food.
Except when they're not. Bake a batch of biscuits that have an emotional charge involved, something that's special to you besides the social cuing telling you that biscuits = love. Tell us that story, your reactions to the biscuits, if they're as sweet as they once were .
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You are mistaken. Cookies can be made according to the above process, but if you are creaming or doing significant mixing when making biscuits, you're doing it wrong.
While ordinarily I am all for regional variation and think it's a cool thing in language, and the British penchant for referring to cookies as "biscuits" is not in itself a problem, the fact that it leaves certain people tragically devoid of a term for a fundamental baked good seems like an oversight in need of correction.
...fuck it, I'm L0ing this the next time anybody British gives me another day's escape from the evil Squibbs. Biscuits = way more than just love.