noun
- a cooking apple that has been dried and flattened
Usage: British; archaic
Examples
- The old recipe called for biffins to be soaked overnight before baking.
- Grandmother kept a jar of biffins in the pantry for winter desserts.
- The market vendor sold traditional biffins alongside other dried fruits.
- Biffins were a popular preserved food in Victorian England.
- She added chopped biffins to the pudding mixture.