Biscuit is universally adopted now by all Continental confectioners as applying in the broader sense to an extensive description of pastry goods which have only one apparent characteristic running throughout them, that of being baked brittle or crisp. Pastry cooks and confectioners, both British and foreign, appear to have mutually agreed to retain this feature as the only one necessary to distinguish a tribe of kinds which differ from each other in almost every other particular. So greatly, indeed, do they differ, that it is almost impossible to attempt their classification, passing as they do with rapid strides from dry to sweet, hard to soft, flaky to short, and plain to fancy, or from one combination to another. The last sentence is tricky for me. Especially, "with rapid strides from ~ to". Does it mean it evolves from A to B, or it includes everything from A to B? Please help me!

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'with rapid strides'

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I believe what they are saying is that it progresses or advances quickly from dry to sweet etc.

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