Dalty wrote:Cookie is softer dough with chocolate chips and usually trades with that name e.g. Maryland Cookies. Frequently larger than standard size too.
Biscuit is everything else.
What you would call a biscuit, we would call a scone (fruit or savoury).
Muffins are, as previously mentioned, how wars start.
In the South, it's pretty much only ever savory. A person can add sweet things to it after it is baked (molasses or jelly, for example), but it's not usually baked with sweet stuff. This may not hold true outside of the South.
What would you call what we would call a scone? Is that also a scone? Most of the people in the U.S. would probably say that what they traditionally call a biscuit differs significantly from what they would call a scone.
Can your scones also be fluffy as all hell, or do they lean toward the stiffer side? Can you make your scones with shortening and/or animal fat, or does it have to be butter?
Would Red Lobster's cheddar biscuits also be considered scones in the U.K.?
I could look all these things up, but I won't.