Questions

[shadowkat]

1. How do you insert images into a post without using photobucket? I tried using flicker and it did not work. The only thing that worked is photobucket and apparently I can't use that any longer.

2. Is there a British version of an American Biscuit and what is it called? Note the American version of a British Biscuit is called a cookie and the reason we call it a cookie, is well, because our biscuit isn't a cookie.

I was pondering this while watching the Great British Bake-Off...in which they were doing savory biscuits and I thought, I don't like those..then realized their idea of a biscuit is not what I'm thinking of at all.

I have a craving for bread, but can't eat bread...I blame the Great British Bake-Off. Going to try an almond flax roll.

Comments

[cactuswatcher]

Fluffy biscuits? I have to say I never had a fluffy biscuit before maybe 1970, and then mostly from chain restaurants. So as a young adult I would have told you there was no such thing.
Home-made biscuits were pretty dense till those awful canned things came along, and I wouldn't exactly call them fluffy. All of them still are still pretty dense if you let them sit for awhile. ;o)

[shadowkat]

By fluffy, I mean it stands up, has bubbles in the center, and is not ...well, you know what I mean, right? The scone and American biscuit are very different. That's why we have the word scones and biscuits.

[conuly]

A biscuit shouldn't have bubbles in the center. It should be flaky. That's why you fold it so often and work with frozen (or at least, very cold) butter.

[cactuswatcher]

I agree. But I have been served biscuits made as Shadowkat describes, mostly at restaurants.

[shadowkat]

Hence the reason that I didn't like them, I think? Can't have them now of course, although the gluten-free version is...well...like a rock. So not recommended.

Pillsbury's often came out with the bubbles. There's a lesson in there somewhere...about home-made vs. non-home made?