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A cat tongue is a small biscuit (cookie) or
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n countries. The name comes from the fact that the biscuits are long and flat, somewhat like a cat's tongue. They are known locally as ''kočičí jazýčky'' (Czech), ''Kattentong'' (Dutch), ''kocie języczki'' (Polish), ''langue de chat'' (French), ''Katzenzungen'' (German), ''lingua di gatto'' (Italian), ''língua de gato'' (Portuguese), ''lengua de gato'' (Spanish), ''macskanyelv'' (Hungarian), ''limbă de pisică'' (Romanian) or ''lidah kucing'' (Indonesian).


Cookies (biscuits)

Cat's tongue cookies are sweet, thin, and crunchy.The original recipe most likely comes from 17th century
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are common ingredients with chocolate, citrus, and spices used in some recipes. In European cuisine they are prepared with a
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, cream or jam filling, and sandwiched together. They are sometimes dipped in chocolate as part of their preparation. In France, the cookie is often served with sorbet or ice cream. In the
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, cat's tongue cookies are served with bienmesabe, a dessert dish. A cat's tongue mold pan may be used in their preparation, in which cookie dough is placed and then baked. In French, this pan is known as ''langue-de-chat''. This pan is also used in the preparation of ladyfingers and
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s. The mold is also referred to as a cat's tongue plaque. In Japan, are often circular or square and are ingredients in such confections as Shiroi Koibito.


Chocolate bars

They are produced from
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dark chocolate Dark chocolate is a form of chocolate made from cocoa solids, cocoa butter and sugar. It has a higher cocoa percentage than white chocolate, milk chocolate, and semisweet chocolate. Dark chocolate is valued for claimed—though unsupported— ...
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.Lebensmittel-Lexikon Dr. Oetker, 4. Aufl. 2004, Artikel ''Katzenzungen''. The first cat tongue (Macskanyelv) was made in
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by the Swiss-born Hungarian patissier Emil Gerbeaud in the late 1880s. The delicacy is still produced by Szerencsi and other companies such as Sweetness and Szamos. It is considered an authentic Hungarian sweet.


See also

* Apas * Broas * Camachile cookie * Kue lidah kucing * Ladyfingers - biscuits shaped like large fingers *
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Milano (cookie) The Milano cookie is a trademarked cookie manufactured by Pepperidge Farm as part of its series of "European" cookies. Each cookie consists of a thin layer of chocolate and, depending on the variety, different flavored filling sandwiched between ...
* Paciencia cookie * Roscas * Rosquillo


References

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Living Gluten and Dairy-Free with French Gourmet Food – Alain Braux
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Bonjour, Happiness!: Secrets to Finding Your Joew de Vivre – Jamie Cat Callan
p. 187.
Cowgirl Chef: Texas Cooking with a French Accent – Ellise Pierce
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The well-tooled kitchen – Fred Bridge, Jean F. Tibbetts
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