Empire biscuit, double biscuit or German biscuit? You decide!
A 6ft6in biscuit has just won a competition to mark the launch of the Scottish Baker of the Year Awards, but what is it called?
Imagine a biscuit made of two discs of shortbread, with jam in the middle and icing and a glacé cherry or something similar on top. All of you will doubtless be picturing something that you could hold with one hand, possibly without the help of a pinkie finger.
However we would now like you to gradually increase its size from that dainty and dunkable morsel. Keep going, no, further than that... bit more still... don’t stop until you reach 78 inches wide (if you are struggling to comprehend the sheer scale, that’s 6ft6in or just under two metres).
And there you have it: that’s the size of the winning entry in a competition to make the largest-ever Empire biscuit to mark the launch of the Scottish Baker of the Year Awards.
However, this sitting room-dominating treat has sparked considerable debate at Scotsman Towers. Is it actually called an ‘Empire biscuit’?
There are those who insist it’s properly called a ‘double biscuit’, while others remembered it as a ‘German biscuit’. We await the wisdom of the letters page with anticipation.
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