Re:The count told Baptistin to leave the plate within
reach of his guest, who began by sipping the Alicante with
an expression of great satisfaction, and then delicately
steeped his biscuit in the wine.


But clearly, he didn't dunk it. First he took a sip from one glass, and then steeped the biscuit in the wine in the other glass.

Maybe he didn't steep it as long as one might steep tea, but hard biscuits aren't going to soften and absorb wine in a second.

a nice italian biscotti (not the ones they sell in starbucks, but the kind you find at a good italian bakery) are really hard and dry. they "stand up" to sitting in hot coffee-not just being dunked in coffee.

Unsoaked, they are like eating sweat hard tack, so hard you could crack a tooth!


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