Lincoln biscuit
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Biscuit
A biscuit is a baked, edible, and commonly flour-based product. The term is used to apply to two distinctly different products in North America and the Commonwealth Nations....
, a member of the genus, shortcake
Shortcake
Shortcake is a sweet biscuit .Shortcake is typically made with flour, sugar, baking powder or soda, salt, butter, milk or cream, and sometimes eggs. The dry ingredients are blended, and then the butter is cut in and mixed until the mixture resembles cornmeal...
biscuits. It has a pattern of dots on the top in concentric
Concentric
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circles . The McVitie's
McVitie's
McVitie's is a snack food brand owned by United Biscuits. The name derives from the original Scottish biscuit maker, McVitie & Price, Ltd., established in 1830 on Rose Street in Edinburgh, Scotland. The firm moved to various sites in the city before completing the St...
version had the word 'Lincoln' embossed on to the biscuit at the centre. Recently it has been very difficult to obtain, but recipe books still champion and enhance the basic recipe.
For many years they were known as Lincoln Creams and no one ever seemed to ever question the fact there was no cream or indeed that they do not hail from Lincoln. Lincoln biscuits are still available in Irish
Ireland
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supermarkets and dedicated fans can still order a packet at several sites dedicated to providing hard-to get essentials for British ex-pats. Despite losing popularity in recent years the basic recipe has come under academic scrutiny and commercial analysis - in 2004 Campden and Chorleywood Food Research Association set up a research project to...
"understand the textural properties which influence consumer acceptance of short dough biscuits (e.g. Lincoln type): ingredient functionality will enable the hardness, crunchiness and breakdown properties to be varied and their acceptability measured.” 08.02.04/365
In Argentina
Argentina
Argentina , officially the Argentine Republic , is the second largest country in South America by land area, after Brazil. It is constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city, Buenos Aires...
, Kraft Foods produces "Galletitas Lincoln," rectangular Lincoln biscuits with the familiar dot pattern, under the Terrabusi brand name. They are ubiquitous.