They drank their coffee from delicate porcelain cups and ate small crisp biscuits and talked about clothes and old furniture and the portraits on the walls and not a word about the professor.
There were biscuits too--thin, crisp and sweet.
'Braune Kuchen' (lit.: brown cakes) are crisp rectangular biscuits baked with molassess and gingerbread spice that are based on a recipe developed back in 1782 from the Konditorei Kemm.
When he spoke, his words seared through the air like so many knives, clipped as topiary, crisp as biscuits.
Different varieties of sugars are used in different quantities to produce a crunchy, crisp biscuit (US: cracker) versus a soft, chewy cake.
The soft and smooth texture of the maltose mix with the crisp biscuit have great appeal, and the nutrition value of maltose is high.
Tea came in glasses but it was hot and fragrant and there were crisp little biscuits too.
The next hour or so was taken up most agreeably, drinking coffee and eating the crisp little biscuits--sprits--that went with it.
From an admirable array of Australian and French cheeses, I enjoyed an ash-covered Selles-sur-Cher goat cheese with crisp biscuits, fresh grapes, dates and dried apricots.
Eleyna had brought wine, fruit, and kreyla-delicious crisp biscuits in a variety of flavors, one Vulcan food humans took to happily.