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Americans call biscuits -'cookies' so what are biscuits in america?
ive heard that they are similar to yorkshire puddings or something.
can anyone provide me with some clues?
thanks for any help!

― willdabeast, Tuesday, 28 December 2004 21:04 (twenty years ago)

http://www.murrayhill5.net/blog/inmykitchenblog/kitchenimages/honeybisquits/honeybisquit.jpg

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 28 December 2004 21:06 (twenty years ago)

Biscuits are salty, circular bready things that are cut in half and you put butter or jelly or honey inside. They are most often a breakfast food, though sometimes they find their way to dinner as well, most typically in the south. They are kinda flaky inside sometimes.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 28 December 2004 21:07 (twenty years ago)

often served with jam and butter, or covered in sausage gravy.

― LSTD (answer) (sexyDancer), Tuesday, 28 December 2004 21:07 (twenty years ago)

You can also DROWN them in GRAVY.

TASTY XPOST

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 28 December 2004 21:08 (twenty years ago)

also a popular side with fried chicken

― LSTD (answer) (sexyDancer), Tuesday, 28 December 2004 21:08 (twenty years ago)

You know what's good? CHEESE BISCUITS, MMMMMMM.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 28 December 2004 21:09 (twenty years ago)

So what do you all call what we call biscuits?

Everyday on ILX I feel like cultural barriers are being torn down. What a beautiful world we live in. *joyous emotion tear*

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 28 December 2004 21:09 (twenty years ago)

http://www.houseofcraig.net/images/bizkits3.jpg

http://www.shopfoodex.com/catalog/images/4hbcShot.jpg

― Pleasant/Plains, Tuesday, 28 December 2004 21:09 (twenty years ago)

before you eat them, say 'ahm fixin to eat some biscuits'

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Tuesday, 28 December 2004 21:10 (twenty years ago)

You know that "Jumper" in the USA =
http://www.chiefaircraft.com/Aircraft/Tools/Images/Assoc_Cessna_Jumper_Cable.jpg

― LSTD (answer) (sexyDancer), Tuesday, 28 December 2004 21:10 (twenty years ago)

So your biscuits are our scones??

― C J (C J), Tuesday, 28 December 2004 21:11 (twenty years ago)

http://www.southern-cross-education.de/hs_dir/pictures/susi2.jpg

― Pleasant/Plains, Tuesday, 28 December 2004 21:11 (twenty years ago)

Beat me to it!

― KeithW (kmw), Tuesday, 28 December 2004 21:11 (twenty years ago)

I don't think so, scones are typically sweet, right? At least the ones I know about are.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 28 December 2004 21:12 (twenty years ago)

Well, you get cheese scones too...

― KeithW (kmw), Tuesday, 28 December 2004 21:12 (twenty years ago)

scones are denser than biscuits

― LSTD (answer) (sexyDancer), Tuesday, 28 December 2004 21:12 (twenty years ago)

I don't really remember British scones, but here they are harder than biscuits, and they're crumbly rather than flaky.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 28 December 2004 21:12 (twenty years ago)

they sound a little like what we would call a scone!
down south you can have a typical cream tea with clotted cream on a scone with strawberry jam yes you can also get cheese scones and cheese straws which are both similar
are biscuits made with puff pastry?

― willdabeast, Tuesday, 28 December 2004 21:13 (twenty years ago)

"Jumper" in the USA =

http://www.dickies.com/catalog/images/products/38506DN.jpg

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Tuesday, 28 December 2004 21:14 (twenty years ago)

I guess UK scones are shaped much like US biscuits, now that I think about it. For some reason, US scones, esp. ones sold at cafes, are triangular.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 28 December 2004 21:14 (twenty years ago)

This is madness!

― C J (C J), Tuesday, 28 December 2004 21:15 (twenty years ago)

Starbucks sell triangular UK scones in the UK. This is getting confusing. I've never seen them before then though; they obviously spotted an opening in the market.

― KeithW (kmw), Tuesday, 28 December 2004 21:15 (twenty years ago)

My mom was making triangular scones before Starbucks was even around, so maybe there's an American instinct to make scones triangular.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 28 December 2004 21:16 (twenty years ago)

But we have different scones over here, I think Irish in origin, that are totally different, triangular and called soda scones. They taste nothing like the kind of scones that look like US biscuits.

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 28 December 2004 21:17 (twenty years ago)

I wonder now if Starbucks pioneered the triangular scone and other similar coffee shops in the U.S. followed suit. (xpost: GUESS NOT)

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 28 December 2004 21:17 (twenty years ago)

soda bread is often made in triangular peices, btw dont get scones confused with scottish potato scones!

― willdabeast, Tuesday, 28 December 2004 21:18 (twenty years ago)

Whoops, I meant

http://www.readersdigest.ca/christmas/recipes_party/cocktail_party/images/biscuit_ham.jpg

― Pleasant/Plains, Tuesday, 28 December 2004 21:18 (twenty years ago)

I don't think we've got an equivalent of the US biscuit.

― KeithW (kmw), Tuesday, 28 December 2004 21:18 (twenty years ago)

Those look like ideal surgical strike-capable food fight projectiles.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 28 December 2004 21:19 (twenty years ago)

I'm getting deja vu with this thread. Didn't we already do about 10 versions of it?

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 28 December 2004 21:20 (twenty years ago)

Calling cookies biscuits is just wrong. Tolerating it is the first step down the path of an irrationalist relativism.

― LaRue (rockist_scientist), Tuesday, 28 December 2004 21:21 (twenty years ago)

thanks for the replies!
can anyone provide me with a recipe for these.
I will reply with a yorkshire pudding recipe

― willdabeast, Tuesday, 28 December 2004 21:21 (twenty years ago)

http://www.throwedrolls.com/images/roll_ani.gif

I'd bet that teeny knows where I got this.

― Pleasant/Plains, Tuesday, 28 December 2004 21:21 (twenty years ago)

But you wouldn't eat British scones with gravy though, would you?

― marianna lcl (marianna lcl), Tuesday, 28 December 2004 21:21 (twenty years ago)

Biscuits are not scones. They are essentially rolls of bread in round scone shape (though our scones are more likely to be triangular or oblong than round). White (sourdough?) bread. Often served warm, though the warmth is mostly found on the inside. They are very light in weight - they are very easily torn apart (ripping rather than breaking or crumbling as a scone) - but not in calories. They hint (only) of sweetness but hint (only) more of saltiness.

(xposts)

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Tuesday, 28 December 2004 21:22 (twenty years ago)

They aren't really very good.

― LaRue (rockist_scientist), Tuesday, 28 December 2004 21:23 (twenty years ago)

So like a cross between soda bread and dumplings then?

(er, xpost)

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 28 December 2004 21:24 (twenty years ago)

Biscuits are fluffy and very fufilling. I wish that they made biscuit pillows.

― Pleasant/Plains, Tuesday, 28 December 2004 21:24 (twenty years ago)

'biscuits' in America is basically a (very large) subculturally-specific name for (a specific variety of) 'dinner rolls'.

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Tuesday, 28 December 2004 21:24 (twenty years ago)

So like a cross between soda bread and dumplings then?

soda bread:scones::biscuits:rolls

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Tuesday, 28 December 2004 21:26 (twenty years ago)

and no, they're not very good

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Tuesday, 28 December 2004 21:27 (twenty years ago)

BTW doing a google image search for "jumper" is not recommended, thanks bin Laden.

― LSTD (answer) (sexyDancer), Tuesday, 28 December 2004 21:27 (twenty years ago)

except when they are

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Tuesday, 28 December 2004 21:27 (twenty years ago)

Yorkshire Puddings
125g flour
pinch of salt
2 eggs
150ml milk
150ml water

mix together into a batter,
then pour a little oil into a special yorkshire pudding baking tray( a bit like a bun/muffin tray) preheat the muffing tray for 5 minutes in a hot oven and then pour in the batter, return to the oven and cook for a further 10 minutes until puffed up and golden

you can also cook giant yorkshire puddings and put lincolshire sausages, gravy and roast beef and mustard mash

― willdabeast, Tuesday, 28 December 2004 21:31 (twenty years ago)

Biscuits are leavened with soda and dinner rolls/buns are yeast breads, right? I wonder if that's regional, though. To me there's very little difference between scones and biscuits, except for the lightness of biscuits. They taste a lot alike to me. Alton Brown's recipe for biscuits is good.

― Bryan (Bryan), Tuesday, 28 December 2004 21:33 (twenty years ago)

Biscuits are great, you all are LOONIES!

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 28 December 2004 21:33 (twenty years ago)

how much lard and buttermilk are in scones?

― jj dncr, Tuesday, 28 December 2004 21:36 (twenty years ago)

yorkshire pudding (which is more akin to our 'popovers') is vaguely similar, but less fluffy and bready than biscuits, which are made with buttermilk and baking powder and perhaps baking soda and shortening rather than eggs and milk

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Tuesday, 28 December 2004 21:39 (twenty years ago)

I like my biscuits with butter or applebutter or sometimes jelly or honey or a combo, like honey and butter... When my great grandmother was around, she'd fix biscuits with every single dinner.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Tuesday, 28 December 2004 21:39 (twenty years ago)

Skipping 8 messages at this point... Click here if you want to load them all.

Or to stay more on topic, name one food that can't be described as such.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 28 December 2004 21:48 (twenty years ago)

all food that is typically good. biscuits are typically bad.

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Tuesday, 28 December 2004 21:51 (twenty years ago)

KFC actually make fantastic biscuits.. although not in the UK :(

― You've Got to Pick Up Every Stitch (tracerhand), Tuesday, 28 December 2004 21:55 (twenty years ago)

Pleasant Plains: You got that off of a Lambert's Restaurant page?
Is Lamberts on the internet? God I have eaten there in years, it's always got 2 or 8 bus-loads of people inside it.
Throwed Rolls with sorghum: CLASSIC

― Trip Maker (Sean Witzman), Tuesday, 28 December 2004 21:57 (twenty years ago)

Best Fast food (US) biscuits: Bojangles.

― Trip Maker (Sean Witzman), Tuesday, 28 December 2004 21:57 (twenty years ago)

biscuits are typically good if you are in a region where they typically make biscuits (see also: damn near any other fairly regional food)(eg chzburgers in europe)(note, however: chzburgers in paradise reputedly good eating).

― jj dncr, Tuesday, 28 December 2004 21:58 (twenty years ago)

correction: I HAVEN'T eaten there in years.

― Trip Maker (Sean Witzman), Tuesday, 28 December 2004 21:58 (twenty years ago)

So to summarize gabbnebb's statement: good things are good, but things that aren't good aren't good.

Oh, lay off, gabbneb. He's just seen one too many Rumsfeld press conferences.

And yes, Trip, Lambert's even has their own website.

Straight outta the Bootheel, Like a bad New Madrid...

― Pleasant/Plains, Tuesday, 28 December 2004 22:03 (twenty years ago)

'biscuits' in America is basically a (very large) subculturally-specific name for (a specific variety of) 'dinner rolls'.

Except they're best eaten at breakfast.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 28 December 2004 22:05 (twenty years ago)

http://www.webpost.net/in/intothesky/gir.jpg

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 28 December 2004 22:06 (twenty years ago)

Even scones from convenience stores are good in Scotland. Soda bread sold in American grocery stores around St. Patrick's Day is mediocre but must be good if properly made.

― youn, Tuesday, 28 December 2004 22:06 (twenty years ago)

We had a biscuit thread over at I Love Cooking. Several of us were willing to admit that Pillsbury's frozen biscuits are actually very good, and it's nice to be able to cook exactly the number desired. I'm making a roast and carrots and taters right now, and in lieu of brown and serve rolls, I'm going to pop a few hockey pucks into the oven and let them perform their magic. They'll soak up plenty of brown gravy.

gabbneb's "biscuits are typically bad" is just about the wrongest thing I've ever read on ILX that didn't come out of C*lum.

― I Am Curious (George) (Rock Hardy), Tuesday, 28 December 2004 22:09 (twenty years ago)

LET'S MAKE BISCUITS

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 28 December 2004 22:09 (twenty years ago)

gabbneb's "biscuits are typically bad" is just about the wrongest thing I've ever read on ILX that didn't come out of C*lum.

as I alluded above, I live in New York City, dude

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Tuesday, 28 December 2004 22:10 (twenty years ago)

biscuits are actually hard to ruin, even at KFC

― LSTD (answer) (sexyDancer), Tuesday, 28 December 2004 22:11 (twenty years ago)

I should explain that by 'scones' above I meant something closer to a cross between an American English muffin and an American biscuit. But I'm pretty sure the label said 'scones.'

― youn, Tuesday, 28 December 2004 22:13 (twenty years ago)

Seriously, I'm making cheese biscuits this weekend.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 28 December 2004 22:13 (twenty years ago)

Freshly made, hot, American biscuits are lovely. Never been a huge scone fan but the irish soda bread is palatable at times. As much as I will not give a penny to TriCon Global, it must be admitted that even KFC's biscuits are quite tasty.

― Michael White (Hereward), Tuesday, 28 December 2004 22:13 (twenty years ago)

also some tasty biscuits:
http://www.theroadwanderer.net/66Illinois/images/09DixieNeon.jpg

I gotta agree, for guilty pleasure comfort food, KFC does it right!

― teeny (teeny), Tuesday, 28 December 2004 22:14 (twenty years ago)

I would say that the key difference between scones and biscuits is buttermilk versus milk; making biscuits more savory and scones less so.

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 28 December 2004 22:14 (twenty years ago)

good things are good, but things that aren't good aren't good.

I think Aristotle was the first to say this.

― LaRue (rockist_scientist), Tuesday, 28 December 2004 22:46 (twenty years ago)

He was just ripping off Socrates anyway.

― LSTD (answer) (sexyDancer), Tuesday, 28 December 2004 23:03 (twenty years ago)

I just had a delicious chicken biscuit (US).

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Wednesday, 29 December 2004 13:59 (twenty years ago)

biscuit is from the french for twice cooked isn't it?

― Porkpie (porkpie), Wednesday, 29 December 2004 14:05 (twenty years ago)

"Biscuits" is also slang for "booty".

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 29 December 2004 14:56 (twenty years ago)

I don't know why, but I just heard Roxymuzak's post as-spoken-by-Napoleon Dynamite.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 29 December 2004 14:59 (twenty years ago)

Because of "I caught you a deicious bass" probably.

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Wednesday, 29 December 2004 15:12 (twenty years ago)

When in Tupelo, go to Connie's Fried Chicken in the a.m. and have the tenderloin biscuit with gravy. Honest to god, it's the best thing Tupelo has to offer foodwise.

― I Am Curious (George) (Rock Hardy), Wednesday, 29 December 2004 15:14 (twenty years ago)

Thank you, Dan, you've helped me understand "The Humpty Dance" more than I had previously.

― LaRue (rockist_scientist), Wednesday, 29 December 2004 16:17 (twenty years ago)

NYC: can anyone direct me to the nearest hot biscuit?

― LSTD (answer) (sexyDancer), Wednesday, 29 December 2004 16:32 (twenty years ago)

biscuit
respelled early 19c. from bisket (16c.), ultimately (1330) from O.Fr. bescuit "twice cooked," alt. under infl. of O.It. biscotto, from M.L. biscoctum, from L. (panis) bis coctus "(bread) twice-baked."

― Michael White (Hereward), Wednesday, 29 December 2004 16:35 (twenty years ago)

Teeny, that sign looks like it says "Dixie Puckers Home." Now all I can think of is Southern assholes. Fabulous!

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Wednesday, 29 December 2004 16:44 (twenty years ago)

one month passes...

I'M MAKING BISCUITS

― teeny (teeny), Tuesday, 8 February 2005 16:36 (twenty years ago)

STOP TAUNTING ME

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 8 February 2005 16:39 (twenty years ago)

I made GARLIC CHEESE BISCUITS for breakfast this past weekend. And sausage gravy. We all had heart attacks by noon.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 8 February 2005 16:49 (twenty years ago)

mmmm biscuits are WONDERFUL.

i'm also excited that st. patty's is only a month away because i'm craving soda bread and i know a place that does it really really well.

― stockholm cindy's secret childhood (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 8 February 2005 17:29 (twenty years ago)

MC PITMAN TO THREAD

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 8 February 2005 17:54 (twenty years ago)

Are there any "healthy" or at least non-heart-attack-inducing, biscuits??

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 8 February 2005 18:00 (twenty years ago)

I used to have a recipe for whole wheat biscuits, they still used butter though.

― teeny (teeny), Tuesday, 8 February 2005 18:09 (twenty years ago)

I generally hate whole wheat. I don't mind some butter/shortening, but have you looked at the nutrition facts on a can of Pillsbury Grands!

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 8 February 2005 18:22 (twenty years ago)

Wow that scone recipe Bryan posted up-a-thread is the weirdest one I have ever seen. I have never seen a scone recipe with cream in it. Let alone dried cranberries (they're not even all that common here).

― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 00:06 (twenty years ago)

We call "cookies" biscuits in Australia, as well. So do NZers. 3 to 1 against, merkins! ;P

― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 00:10 (twenty years ago)

But we outnumber you all. Cookies 4 ever!

― nickn (nickn), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 01:56 (twenty years ago)

Find threads from I Love Everything, containing biscuits.

100 results found:

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Thursday, 10 February 2005 13:48 (twenty years ago)

Are there any "healthy" or at least non-heart-attack-inducing, biscuits??
-- Spencer Chow (spencercho...), February 8th, 2005 6:00 PM. (spencermfi)

http://msnbc.com/news/2029913.jpg

haw

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 10 February 2005 14:20 (twenty years ago)

six years pass...

Are things like Penguin, Club and Trio classified as biscuits or chocolate bars?

Anyway, I'm eating Penguins, they are smaller than when I was a kid.

― resonate with awesomeness (jel --), Wednesday, 15 June 2011 22:01 (fourteen years ago)

biscuits imo. probably a size thing. also they are crunchy (necessary but not sufficient for biscuithood). also a penguin is just a bona fide biscuit covered in chocolate.

penguins aren't smaller, you are bigger.

― i love the smell of facepalm in the morning (ledge), Wednesday, 15 June 2011 23:10 (fourteen years ago)

"If you like a lot of chocolate on your biscuit join our Club"

― wtf is wrong with people? (snoball), Wednesday, 15 June 2011 23:18 (fourteen years ago)

Although I would say that a Twix was a chocolate bar in the same was as a Mars bar.

― wtf is wrong with people? (snoball), Wednesday, 15 June 2011 23:18 (fourteen years ago)

seven years pass...

Are there any good alternatives to M&S in the nicely-presented mid-range UK biscuit market? I have to buy a load as corporate gifts to take to Russia this week and idk if i can get £100+ of Fortnum's justifiably expensed.

― Wag1 Shree Rajneesh (ShariVari), Wednesday, 14 November 2018 10:44 (six years ago)

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