In America is a biscuit different to a cookie?

Question

Here in Australia, most people use the term biscuit in the same sense as cookie, but someone from America told me they eat biscuits with gravy for breakfast. Cookies and gravy sounds weird, even for Americans, so I'm guessing biscuits and cookies are different things. Please explain.

Answer 1

Well,First I don't appreciate you calling Americans weird after all you eat alligators
yuk!! Now we have that out of the way.
To answer your question.Yes.Cookies are dessert,sweet some are very sweet. Have you ever had a chocolate chip cookie?
Boy are you missing out.While flour is used in both of them the rest of the ingredients are different.there are many variations of cookies and biscuits.but at the same time their beginnings are basic its what you add to them that makes them different. I hope I didn't confuse further.By the way I won't insult you I'll do the opposite. We have a restaurant called Outback and I love it.I also love your accent. have a great day !

Answer 2

Cookies are almost always sweet, even the no sugar cookies. Biscuits are more like rolls but heavy, flaky, and fattening. Biscuits are generally eaten at breakfast, although my dad liked them in the evening with eggs and bacon. (At 160 pounds, or 72 kilos, he has monstrously high cholesterol for eating that way). Biscuits have a heavier fat base due to its ingredients of egg and butter which are typically found in them.

Answer 3

Biscuits here are sort of like hot rolls or scones. Actually, scones minus the currants or raisens.....that's a better example. Yeah, cookies are of the oreo and chocolate chip variety, while biscuits are breakfast breads. ;) If that blows your mind, you should come to the South and have some Chocolate Gravy with your biscuits! :)

Answer 4

Biscuits in America are made from Milk or Buttermilk, and Flour(usually self-rising flour). They are not sweet, and they are more of a bread than a cookie. They are served typically with breakfast, and eaten with eggs, and sausage gravy.
Hope this helps.
Robert

Answer 5

Yes, they are two very different things. Biscuits are fluffy bread we eat with gravy, or butter, or honey, and usually accompany things like fried chicken. Cookies are sugary flat baked items - such as chocolate chip cookies, peanut butter cookies, sugar cookies, etc. I am not sure, but I think the biscuits you're referring to are what we call "biscotti" - the kind you dip in coffee.

Answer 6

Yes.

In USA, a biscuit is a short, savory bread, usually eaten for breakfast in the Southern states. It usually contains, flour, baking powder, salt, butter or shortening (Crisco), and milk or buttermilk.

To the USA, a cookie to us is a sweet baked good, usually dropped onto a cookie sheet and baked, but sometimes cut out of a bar pan.

Answer 7

yep. biscuit sorta like an unsweetened scone, but fluffy. cookies are.........well Oreo's. sweet and not usually fluffy.

what the heck is so wrong with gravy on cookies?

of course i'm joking. sure do like good biscuits with good sausage gravy.

Answer 8

Cookies are sweet and delicious. Biscuits are salty, flaky and made out of bread and are served as appetizers with meals. Cookies can be eaten as a snack time delight.

Answer 9

A cookie is sweet. Here in the US a biscuit is made of flour, shortening, and milk kneaded together and baked. Great with butter and jam on it!

Answer 10

A biscuit in the United States is much like a scone - except it does not have anything sweet added to such as raisins.