It isn’t often we get a cultural win over them so I always revel in it, being from the south I deeply want to give my welsh drinking buddy some moonshine
Fucked if I know the exact definition tbh. Biscuits are more crumbly, cookies are more moist and generally have other things added to them, like chocolate chips or m&ms. I just know a biscuit when I see it. Your biscuits look more like savoury scones but I can’t say I’ve had the opportunity to try
Yeah, I’m pretty sure we just lump your biscuits in with the umbrella definition of “cookie” and some of them are just harder than others. As for our biscuits, I have the same problem that I’ve never had a scone, so I also remain pretty sure that scones are what I’d call sweet/non-savory biscuits…but I’m also not sure.
The ingredients for American biscuits: flour, butter, baking powder, and milk.
EDIT: trying to make them in places outside the American South can be more complicated than the recipe indicates, though. I read an article a couple of years ago, where someone dug into the problem of why biscuits aren’t very good when they’re made outside the American South. Apparently, the hardness of wheat flour (which I didn’t even know was a thing) is different, in different flour producing regions, and only the softer flours produce good biscuits.
This explains why they’re a regional thing. It also explains why I, as a Texan, have had such mixed luck, with biscuits sometimes turning out perfectly, but other times turning out way too dense and horrible. Apparently, we get both types of flour here, and they are not labeled according to which one is the biscuit flour and which one is the bread/roll flour.
Interesting. I’ll have to see if I can figure out which of these hard vs soft flour types y’all have over there, so I’ll know if they’ll come out correctly. It’s surprisingly difficult to ascertain, especially since I’ve forgotten the terms that one article used to describe the situation.
UK is a bad example though, it’s basically an island that has an issue getting decent weed… decent anything really, they’re consuming a ton of crappy coke, too. Horrible quality doesn’t stop them though.
Crappy coke just seems like a natural safety feature, really. You toot a bunch of baking soda and flour, with some cocaine added for spice, party your face off, and you’re never really in truly elevated danger of a heart attack. I’m sure it saves the NHS a lot of trouble.
Unfortunately, people don’t simply add baking soda, but rather animal dewormer on one end of the spectrum, and fentanyl on the other, with all kinds of creative bullshit in between.
Hmm. I suppose recent years have seen a shortage of dewormer (because morons were taking it, in a misguided attempt to cure covid) and a surplus of fentanyl (because morons are taking it, in general).
Just to provide accurate information for anyone that might read this: different kind of dewormer. Cocaine has Levamisole, the covidiot crowd latched on to Ivermetcin.
It is somewhat “funny” that we now have multiple contexts in which people guzzle down animal deworming agents though. Ah well.
If any of the friends I made over there ever come visit this side of the pond I’m gonna fuck their whole world up
Oh yeah. I mean, can you even imagine what some of these blast-your-face-inside-out edibles will do to them?
Then they’ll go back over there, calling the weed cookies they had “weed biscuits.” Which is just cute, in and of itself.
It isn’t often we get a cultural win over them so I always revel in it, being from the south I deeply want to give my welsh drinking buddy some moonshine
As a fellow southerner, I also have to remind you of your duty to show these people what biscuits are.
I make my moms every potluck my company puts on
Cookies are cookies, my transatlantic friend. Biscuits are a separate category
Wait, really? Okay, what’s the actual definition of biscuit, then?
From the context that I’ve experienced, I suspect it’s basically what we would call a “crispy cookie,” but please do go on.
Fucked if I know the exact definition tbh. Biscuits are more crumbly, cookies are more moist and generally have other things added to them, like chocolate chips or m&ms. I just know a biscuit when I see it. Your biscuits look more like savoury scones but I can’t say I’ve had the opportunity to try
Yeah, I’m pretty sure we just lump your biscuits in with the umbrella definition of “cookie” and some of them are just harder than others. As for our biscuits, I have the same problem that I’ve never had a scone, so I also remain pretty sure that scones are what I’d call sweet/non-savory biscuits…but I’m also not sure.
The ingredients for American biscuits: flour, butter, baking powder, and milk.
EDIT: trying to make them in places outside the American South can be more complicated than the recipe indicates, though. I read an article a couple of years ago, where someone dug into the problem of why biscuits aren’t very good when they’re made outside the American South. Apparently, the hardness of wheat flour (which I didn’t even know was a thing) is different, in different flour producing regions, and only the softer flours produce good biscuits.
This explains why they’re a regional thing. It also explains why I, as a Texan, have had such mixed luck, with biscuits sometimes turning out perfectly, but other times turning out way too dense and horrible. Apparently, we get both types of flour here, and they are not labeled according to which one is the biscuit flour and which one is the bread/roll flour.
We do make them in several ways, you guys will probably be more familiar with the high tea scone but here is a (more complicated) savoury scone recipe which seems pretty biscuitty https://vintagekitchennotes.com/parmesan-chive-scones/#tasty-recipes-12290-jump-target
Also a sweet scone recipe which is generally used for high tea https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/classic-scones-jam-clotted-cream
Interesting. I’ll have to see if I can figure out which of these hard vs soft flour types y’all have over there, so I’ll know if they’ll come out correctly. It’s surprisingly difficult to ascertain, especially since I’ve forgotten the terms that one article used to describe the situation.
UK is a bad example though, it’s basically an island that has an issue getting decent weed… decent anything really, they’re consuming a ton of crappy coke, too. Horrible quality doesn’t stop them though.
Other places do much better.
Crappy coke just seems like a natural safety feature, really. You toot a bunch of baking soda and flour, with some cocaine added for spice, party your face off, and you’re never really in truly elevated danger of a heart attack. I’m sure it saves the NHS a lot of trouble.
Unfortunately, people don’t simply add baking soda, but rather animal dewormer on one end of the spectrum, and fentanyl on the other, with all kinds of creative bullshit in between.
Hmm. I suppose recent years have seen a shortage of dewormer (because morons were taking it, in a misguided attempt to cure covid) and a surplus of fentanyl (because morons are taking it, in general).
Just to provide accurate information for anyone that might read this: different kind of dewormer. Cocaine has Levamisole, the covidiot crowd latched on to Ivermetcin.
It is somewhat “funny” that we now have multiple contexts in which people guzzle down animal deworming agents though. Ah well.