what are the biscuits in biscuits and gravy called in british english?

@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.

@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)

@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.

@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)

@Nine @pantransautie the thing that scones have become is enjoyable, don’t get me wrong. but it’s not what they started out as.

@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.

@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.

@zensaiyuki @pantransautie That's... actually a really excellent point to be honest.