food mention, british english question
what are the biscuits in biscuits and gravy called in british english?
food mention, british english question
@pantransautie No bloody clue. We don't have them in the UK. I mean we have scones but they aren't even the same thing as american's "Biscuits".
We simply don't have anything comparable.
food mention, british english question
@Nine @pantransautie it’s well documented that the war and austerity ruined british cooking skills. scines must have been a casualty. if scones were made correctly they would be identical to biecuits instead of nasty rock hard flavourless things.
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@zensaiyuki @pantransautie excuse me but if I could have a word for a moment
DELET THIS
(realtalk though I disagree? Scones are delicious if done right. Kinda a bit dense, but lovely, cakey things, slightly sweet, go amazingly well toasted with jam and cream)
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@Nine @pantransautie the thing that scones have become is enjoyable, don’t get me wrong. but it’s not what they started out as.
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@Nine @pantransautie between the two, american style biscuits, and scones, scones has the more unforgiving recipe, it can be made to come out like american biscuits, but it requires a mostly extinct skill. buscuits make up for this by just having loads of fat.
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@Nine @pantransautie then there’s the thing I call “the recipe problem”, in that a recipe doesn’t capture the subtle unwritten details of “what it is supposed to be like”, and the little adjustments you make to get there. so an old scone recipe executed today will likely be aiming at the modern notion of what a scone is supposed to be like.
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@zensaiyuki @pantransautie That's... actually a really excellent point to be honest.
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@Nine @pantransautie anyways, don’t take my word for any of this. i am just relaying what my (australian) partner found out about it and told me after she researched the fuck out of it. i probably have some important details wrong.
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@Nine @pantransautie ah, the common ancestor is peasant food from scotland, which would be called a biscuit, scone or bannock depending on its shape and how it was leavened. it used to be called a biscuit in the UK but it went out of fashion.
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@zensaiyuki @pantransautie I'll be honest you're probably right? I don't know enough about cooking myself to be any more informative, but yeah, our cuisine over here is justifiably kinda shit. So much bland bollocks. Any good food we have is literally just because we stole it from another country
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@zensaiyuki @pantransautie (this post I agree with though , british cuisine is straight up garbage, lol)
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@Nine @pantransautie scones aren’t the same thing now, but rewind 100 years and they were. you could say they have a common ancestor. it’s the scones that changed. (they got worse)