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cara

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I'm lost... my translator isn't really a help to me...
what do you call this:

200px-Butterkeks.jpg
 
tea biscuit, cookie, cracker....in that order.

It's not sweet like a cookie, but not savory like a cracker, either.

Digestive is another word for it. They were served to settle the stomach after a large meal.
 
I would just call it a biscuit! The sub division of biscuit would be tea-biscuit, I agree VB. We (UK) call a digestive a coarser, less sweet still, biscuit that a rich tea biscuit, and a cracker is for us what you have cheese on...like water crackers, or matzos or ritz crackers! Although we also eat chese with digestives sometimes.
 
I LOVE THOSE when i use to go to germany with my oma she fed me those...

in english its a butter cookie.. they dont taste the same as a tea digestive.. more of cross between a shortbread and a tea digestive..

Oh how i miss those!!
 
Oh Cara, I know you can do better than that... it is written right on the biscuit... "butterkeks" >>>> "butter biscuits/butter cookies":-p
 
urmaniac13 said:
Oh Cara, I know you can do better than that... it is written right on the biscuit... "butterkeks" >>>> "butter biscuits/butter cookies":-p


I know.. but would you understand, what I mean...? :-p
 
cara said:
I know.. but would you understand, what I mean...? :-p

Of course! But also because I am familiar with Leibniz. They are a little dryer and crispier than the most widely known type of butter biscuits, like the danish ones. So you could add that explanation, too...:)
 
For those who are not familiar with Leibniz, I think "Tea Biscuits" is the closest thing that they can relate to, as Verablue suggested.
 
I can get arrowroot biscuits in big supermarkets in south of UK, I've see them, never tried them. I have head them. So, like a McVities rich tea? Is that what is the closest, if you cannot get arrowroot or the original?
 
Dill pickles: Have you tried the Jewish retailers round North London? ;) I'm sure they could arrange sending them to you.
 
Chef_Jen said:
I get ppl who visit me from back home (canada and america) to put them in their suitcases!

Where are you at Chef Jen? Even a large trunk wouldn't be big enough for all the things I want from my home in the USA lol !!!!! And that includes alot more than just food. I figured the easiest solution is just to move back which I can't wait to do!!

If you said "butterkeks" to me without showing me the picture, I would think it was a butter poundcake. That is what keks are similar to here in Bulgaria. Sometimes they call muffins that too.
 
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