Britpick?

[amberfocus]

What do you call these in the U.K.?



We call them buttermilk biscuits, but since your biscuits are what we call cookies I am guessing this is not the term used.

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[apurplepatch.livejournal.com]

They look like scones to me (from Australia, but we stick to the same theory)

http://www.theage.com.au/ffximage/2006/09/11/scone_narrowweb__300x458,0.jpg

http://images.google.co.uk/images?hl=en&source=imghp&biw=1680&bih=864&q=scone&gbv=2&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=

[wendymr.livejournal.com]

They are scones. I'm always bewildered, though, at the idea that these would be served with gravy and as a side-dish with dinner, as scones are sweet (unless made with cheese, of course) and served as afternoon tea in the UK - usually with cream and jam.

[amberfocus.livejournal.com]

Well, the way I make what we call biscuits they are savory, not sweet, and go very well as a side dish or with gravy. You can make them with sugar but then they are more dessert-like and very sweet like your scones. Much more like those pictured in your comment.

[essie007.livejournal.com]

We have 'scones' in the US too and they're sort of like buttermilk biscuits only they're more crubly than flakey and more sweet than savory, and they tend to have dried fruit baked in. Whereas 'biscuits' are more like croissants and they're served as a bread course with butter and gravy and such. What I'm wondering is are both those things called 'scones' in the UK or are the scones scones and the buttermilk biscuits something else?

[wendymr.livejournal.com]

As far as I'm aware, we don't have anything remotely like those buttermilk 'biscuits'. Scones are an afternoon tea/dessert item. The only savoury version of scones would be cheese scones, where of course there would be less sugar than in plain, raisin or cranberry scones.

[honorh.livejournal.com]

American biscuits are much lighter than scones. They're, well, fluffy. Delightful things, really. They go well with savory things or just with butter and honey.

[annissamazing]

I'm American, but as I understand it, biscuits as we know them are not eaten in Britain. Which is a shame, if I may be allowed to editorialize.

[yavie-namarie.livejournal.com]

Indeed

[rebeccaclark.livejournal.com]

I can indeed verify that "scones" (British) = "biscuits" (American). Also, did you know that while "English muffins" are sold in England, they aren't called "muffins"?

[wendymr.livejournal.com]

What do you call them, then? Because I always knew them as muffins, and that's what the packet I would buy had on the label!

[10-rose.livejournal.com]

My Austrailian friends say scones.

[jessalrynn.livejournal.com]

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[10-rose.livejournal.com]

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[geordie-chick.livejournal.com]

Scones yes but being a former Cornish girl we put jam first with cream but in Devon it's cream then jam and woe betide the tourist that does it differently and always plain scones, not fruit ones like wendymr's pic.

[develish1]

would tend to agree with several of the others in that, given your description of these (despite what they look like, which yes is indeed scones) these are NOT something that is eaten here in the UK. The only savoury style ones I'm aware of are cheese ones, and these are still eaten only as a snack, certainly not as a side dish with a main meal.