During the court battle between Mcvitie's and Her Majesty's Customs and Excise, Mcvitie's baked a giant Jaffa Cake to prove that Jaffa cakes were really cakes and not biscuits. It was a long and costly dispute, but McVities finally tasted sweet success and Jaffa Cakes were finally recognised as chocolate covered cakes.
The leading case on the borderline is that concerning Jaffa cakes: United Biscuits (LON/91/0160). Customs and Excise had accepted since the start of VAT that Jaffa cakes were zero-rated as cakes, but always had misgivings about whether this was correct.
McVitie & Price introduced the Jaffa Cake in 1927. It contained a simple combination of sugar and tangerine oil to form the sealed layer of jam. The cakes were named after the Jaffa oranges which flavour the zesty centre of the cake.
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Biscuit means a small flour confectionery product with a low moisture content produced from confectionery dough which is made from flour, sugar, fat and other ingredients and is leavened mechanically or with yeast or other leavening agents.
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The most widely reported aspect of the case was that upon going stale, a Jaffa cake goes hard like a cake rather than soft like a biscuit. Consequently, the tribunal decided that in fact, the humble Jaffa Cake is a cake and therefore a zero-rated foodstuff.
(slang) An impotent or infertile male.
In this case, bikkie (the colloquial Australian word for a cookie), is clipped slang for biscuit (the British English word for a type of cookie), and it uses the -ie diminutive suffix.
The Anzac biscuit is a sweet biscuit, popular in Australia and New Zealand, made using rolled oats, flour, sugar, butter (or margarine), golden syrup, baking soda, boiling water, and (optionally) desiccated coconut.
Tim Tam is a brand of chocolate biscuit introduced by the Australian biscuit company Arnott's in 1964. It consists of two malted biscuits separated by a light hard chocolate cream filling and coated in a thin layer of textured chocolate.
For athletes, Jaffas can indeed provide a necessary energy boost. "This carbohydrate is ideal for athletes, especially during training or a game as it will provide a quick and tasty source of fuel. Energy gels and similar are less palatable so less likely to be consumed in adequate amounts.
Jaffa cakes were first produced by McVitie's in 1927 and you may think the main flavours of a Jaffa Cake are orange and chocolate, but you'd be wrong! The main flavouring in the jam is actually apricot, but it does have an added hint of tangerine oil. This isn't the first time that snacks have hit the headlines.
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The ingredients: Jaffa Cakes contain flour, eggs and milk, thus making them a cake. The product's texture: cakes are soft, whereas biscuits are hard and can be snapped. Jaffa Cakes have the consistency of a sponge cake. The texture of the product when it goes stale: cakes go hard when stale, whereas biscuits go soft.
Jaffa Cakes were then ruled to be biscuits partly covered in chocolate.”
In Australia and India, a teacake is typically a butter cake, usually ready to serve warm from the oven in less than 30 minutes. Ingredients typically consist of flour, eggs, butter, cinnamon and sugar. It is traditionally served warm as an accompaniment to tea.
The use of the word 'Anzac' in the commercial production and sale of Anzac biscuits is usually approved, however the biscuits must not substantially deviate from the generally accepted recipe and shape, and must be referred to as 'Anzac Biscuits' or 'Anzac Slice' (not 'Anzac Cookies').
“Referring to these products as 'Anzac Cookies' is generally not approved, due to the non-Australian overtones,” the guidelines state. The Department says on its website: “No person may use the word Anzac, or any word resembling it in connection with any trade, business, calling or profession.”
chook. A domestic fowl; a chicken. Chook comes from British dialect chuck(y) 'a chicken; a fowl' which is a variant of chick. Chook is the common term for the live bird, although chook raffles, held in Australian clubs and pubs, have ready-to-cook chooks as prizes.
At first the biscuits were called Soldiers' Biscuits, but after the landing on Gallipoli, they were renamed ANZAC Biscuits.
Contributor's comments: [NSW Informant] We called doughies 'doughnuts'. A straight-line version of this was always called 'laying down rubber' or a 'burnout'. Contributor's comments: "Doughies" is also used in Melbourne.
Jaffas have become one of the all-time Australian classics. They're now sold under Nestlé's Allen's brand.
What Is a Jaffa Orange? A Jaffa orange, also called a Shamouti orange, is a citrus fruit that is grown in Jaffa, Israel, hence its name. It's a unique type of orange because of its sweet taste, deep orange color, and thick peel.
Jaffas, the chocolate-coated orange balls that were as integral to a Saturday movie matinee as the cartoon and the cross bloke who patrolled the aisles with a torch, were first made in 1931 by James Stedman-Henderson's Sweets Ltd in Sydney.