Tea Cake Or Tea Biscuit ?


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Tunnocks make a "Mallow upon a biscuit "base covered in chocolate........Its referred to as a Tea Cake but is it ?

Tea Cake or Tea Biscuit ?

It's all to do with VAT. Jaffa cakes were classed as a vatable item until the proved, somehow, as a cake and therefor free from VAT.

Tea cakes are the same.

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Biscuits go soft when they go stale, and cakes go hard - that was what proved Jaffa Cakes were indeed cakes.

The chocolate and the mallow inside the Biscuit base will NOT go Hard ---so therefor on your theory the "Teacake" (only named so for VAT purposes) is indeed a Biscuit. Good Call.

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bis cuit = cooked twice and originate from a french baker who mistakenly cooked his loaf twice

the French baguette owes its shape and form from Napoleons(r.i.peace)troops who cooked their bread on the end of their bayonettes

I think you will find that the biskit was discovered by Lord Biscus of Utrecht way back in the early days before Napoleon was a twinkle in his fathers eye -

It may have been later reduced for manufacturing requirements as Lordbiscus ofUtrecht was far too long to put on the first wrapper......Biscuit was more favoured. :cool:

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