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2011)| The modern-day confusion in the English language around
the word "biscuit" is created by its etymology. The Middle
French word bescuit is derived from the Latin words bis (twice)
and coquere, coctus (to cook, cooked), and, hence, means "twice-
cooked". This is because biscuits were originally cooked in a
twofold process: first baked, and then dried out in a slow oven.
However, the Dutch language from around 1703 had adopted the
word koekje, a language diminutive of cake, to have a similar
meaning for a similar hard, baked product. This may be related
to the Russian or Ukrainian translation, where "biscuit" has
come to mean "sponge cake". The difference between the secondary
Dutch word and that of Latin origin is that, whereas the koekje
is a cake that rise