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

[conuly]

So when and how do people eat American biscuits? I thought they were a breakfast dish and eaten with gravy.

Down south, sure - and it's a white gravy.

But you can also eat them with lots of butter for dinner, or use them as the base for strawberry shortcake. (Cream on top!)

[shadowkat]

To clarify further, peasant:

"While biscuits and gravy generally refers to sausage gravy, it can also refer to egg gravy, made in one of two ways:

• by scrambling eggs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrambled_eggs in bacon grease (dripping https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacon#Bacon_fat), then adding flour and milk to make gravy, and adding crumbled bacon back to the mixture[7] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biscuits_and_gravy#cite_note-7
• by making a basic roux https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roux, creating a brown gravy base, then whisking beaten eggs into the boiling gravy"

It has flour as a thickener not corn starch.

It's a traditional SouthEastern US dish...although I've seen it pop up in Texas and the Midwest. My mother had it as a child in Missouri.