A biscuit is a very tasty and flaky baked edible product. The term is used to apply to two distinctly different products in North America and the Commonwealth Nations.

•  In the U.S. it relates to a small soft leavened bread, somewhat similar to a scone.

•  In Commonwealth English, it commonly is used to refer to a small and hard, often sweetened, flour-based product, most akin in American English to a cookie, or sometimes in the case of cheese biscuits, a cracker.

Biscuits today can be savory or sweet, but most are small at around 2 inches in diameter, and flat. The term biscuit also applies to sandwich-type biscuits, wherein a layer of cream or icing is sandwiched between two biscuits, such as the Custard cream. European biscuits tend to be thinner, softer, and more sugary in consistency, and often more creative in design, whereas British biscuits tend to be harder and plainer, perhaps as a result of the country's naval history. Thanks for visiting and please come back often! Mmmm, hmmm.

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