IYENGAR BAKERY KHARA BISCUIT / MASALA BISCUIT / SAVORY COOKIES RECIPE (2024)

FAQs

What is the origin of Khara biscuit? ›

The khari biscuit was a part of the cuisine of the Irani Zoroastrian population. Fearing Islamic persecution in Iran, the people came to India and eventually began the well known Irani cafes. From pattice to bun maska, Irani cafes have given us all favourite snacks to enjoy along with our tea.

These are made with just refined flour, sugar and ghee or butter. Sometimes cardamoms or saffron are used to flavor them. They are garnished with nuts like pistachios & almonds. In India, you will find nankhatai in almost every bakery, eatery and even in super markets.

Unlike a chewier cookie, biscuits are made with a dough, they can be cut into any shape and their firmer, snappier and flatter constitution provides the perfect blank canvas for icing and decorating. In North America you might know our British biscuits as a cookie or cracker!

The earliest surviving example of a biscuit is from 1784, and it is a ship's biscuit. They were renowned for their inedibility, and were so indestructible that some sailors used them as postcards.

The biscuit was eventually renamed "Milk Chocolate Roughs" by Griffin's, which advertised the renaming with a new slogan: "Same bikkie. New name." However, the name "Afghan" is still the one used by other companies.

A biscuit, in most English speaking countries, is a flour-based baked and shaped food item. Biscuits are typically hard, flat, and unleavened. They are usually sweet and may be made with sugar, chocolate, icing, jam, ginger, or cinnamon. They can also be savoury, similar to crackers.

Crisco may be beneficial for other baking applications, but for biscuit making, butter is the ultimate champion!

Cookies are sweet, baked treats often made with sugar, flour, and additional ingredients like chocolate or nuts. They are soft and chewy, originating from the United States. In contrast, biscuits, popular in British and American cuisines, are flaky and buttery, served with savory dishes or enjoyed for breakfast.

Why put an egg in biscuits? ›

Biscuit recipes tend to be egg-free, this makes them drier and the lack of protein to bind the mix helps achieve that crumbly texture. For super light, crumbly biscuits try grating or pushing the yolks of hard-boiled eggs through a sieve into the biscuit dough.

The oldest biscuit of India is the "Britannia Company Arrowroot Biscuit", which was first introduced in 1892 by the Britannia Company in Kolkata (then Calcutta), India. The biscuit is made from arrowroot flour and was originally marketed as a health biscuit for children and invalids.

A British biscuit is what Americans know as a cookie or a cracker. In the United Kingdom, the word biscuit refers to any hard, thin, bread-like product. A distinguishing factor between an American cookie and a British biscuit is that a British biscuit must always have a “snap” because it is crispy.

¹. 1. a young woman, who is fig. 'sweet' and/or 'good enough to eat'; thus cold biscuit n., an unappealing woman; show biscuit n., a very attractive woman; also of a man [Williams (1994) offers examples of biscuit as a sexual organ, citing the appearance of biscuits as 17C 'brothel-fare'].

A cookie (American English) or biscuit (British English) is a baked snack or dessert that is typically small, flat, and sweet.

However, one snack that has truly stood the test of time and has become a favorite amongst tea lovers is the khari biscuit, also known as the puff pastry. The origins of the puff pastry can be traced back to France, where a young apprentice named Claudius Gele created it to feed his ailing father.

Rusks is the anglicized term for beskuit and is a traditional Afrikaner breakfast meal or snack. They have been dried in South Africa since the late 1690s as a way of preserving bread, especially when traveling long distances without refrigeration.

Wafers' origin dates to the 9th century Western Europe where the first waffle tong or waffle iron was discovered. The term wafer was first included in Middle English by 1377. In the 1890s, Josef Manner manufactured the first hazelnut cream-filled wafer sandwich.

Cathead biscuits are a feature of the Mississippi Delta. The name comes from the size of these biscuits – the size of a cat's head. Cathead biscuits are served in Southern soul food joints and meat-and-three restaurants, places where the waitress calls you hon'.