biscuitty

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1. alternativeAlternative form of biscuity.

   It’s the dead yeast that gives it that lovely biscuitty flavour.

   2001, Julian Curry, Hic! or The Entire History of Wine (Abridged), London: Vinum Bonum, →ISBN, page 43

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   Older Sémillons, while delightful on their own, can match more buttery sauces as well as the buttery, biscuitty richness of pastry.

   1990, Jim Ainsworth, The Simon & Schuster Pocket Guide to White Wines, New York, N.Y.: Fireside, Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 127

   The cake was at the centre of every celebration, wedding, Christmas, birthday, saint’s day, festival and festivity; an association which has given it a higher social status than its biscuitty inferior, which survives to this day.

   2020, Pen Vogler, “Cake: a regional lexicon”, in Scoff: A History of Food and Class in Britain, London: Atlantic Books, published 2021, →ISBN, page 405