In the second half of The Beast Curse, Oakmoor frequently brings Juliet refreshments during court events because she seems to need them. (And all of you who’ve read that far know why… 😉 ) But it was too boring to keep saying “tea and sweet biscuits” like I had in previous books where court event refreshments only happened a couple times. So I decided to research exactly what type of cookies (i.e. sweet biscuits) were served at events in Regency England… and I fell down the cookie rabbit hole, lol.

I found some fun historical-style recipes to try (yum!) like these Oatmeal Spice Cookies and these French Macaroons. (Note: macaroons aren’t sandwich-like, but delicate cookies made with almonds, sugar, egg whites, and rosewater or orange-blossom water.)

But the most helpful site I found was Food History Jottings about the types of Regency period biscuits. It covers the history of biscuits and biscuit prints, which was fascinating.

An hour or so later (I told you I fell down a cookie rabbit hole), I had the list of the types of sweet biscuits served in Calatini:

• oatmeal sweet biscuits
• nut sweet biscuits
• spice sweet biscuits
• shokolat sweet biscuits
• gingyr sweet biscuits
• shortbread sweet biscuits
• millefruit sweet biscuits
• sponge sweet biscuits
• waffle sweet biscuits
• (fruit) preserve sweet biscuits (e.g. strawberry preserve SB)
• pinwheels
• rolled wafers
• macaroons (either rosewater or oregne-blossom)
  

I did mention many of these types during The Beast Curse. Did you spot them all? It’s like pokemon but with cookies, lol.