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bizcocho — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • biscuit noun A small, flat baked snack, either crisp (British sense, like a cookie) or soft and flaky (American sense, like a scone).
  • cake noun A sweet baked dessert made from flour, sugar, eggs, and other ingredients.
  • rusk noun A hard, dry, twice-baked biscuit, often given as a teething food for babies.

Senses

bizcocho is used for these senses in English:

  • Danish pastry A sweet and flaky yeast-raised roll made from a dough using butter or margarine and filled with remonce (butter and sugar) or custard.
  • biscuit A form of unglazed earthenware.
  • cake A rich, sweet dessert food, typically made of flour, sugar, and eggs and baked in an oven, and often covered in icing.
  • rusk a twice-baked bread, slices of bread baked until they are hard and crisp (also called a zwieback)
  • sponge cake A light, soft, baked dessert (commonly layered with cream and jam) that is typically made with flour, sugar, baking powder and eggs, and has a firm, yet well aerated structure, similar to that of a sea sponge.

biscuit — full definition

  1. noun A small, flat baked snack, either crisp (British sense, like a cookie) or soft and flaky (American sense, like a scone).
  2. noun Unglazed pottery that has been fired once but not yet coated with glaze.
  3. noun Slang for a hockey puck.

cake — full definition

  1. noun A sweet baked dessert made from flour, sugar, eggs, and other ingredients.
  2. verb To coat something thickly, or to harden into a solid crusted layer.

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